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UK Channel 4 undercover report: Cruise worker pay is terrible but the hours are long

Oliver Smith

Skift Take

How much impact can a documentary have when consumers have already decided that they really, really like dirt-cheap cruising?

The cruise industry has defended its employment policies after an investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches highlighted low wages and long working hours. The programme’s producers arranged for an undercover reporter to spend five weeks working on board the cruise ship Celebrity Eclipse, operated by Celebrity Cruises. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="350"] Celebrity Eclipse headed out to sea. Photo by Cruise News Weekly.[/caption] Its investigation revealed that many members of staff receive less than half the UK national minimum wage (£6.19 an hour

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