National Gallery: Visitor Services

Baroness Thornton Excerpts

Thursday 5th February 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Thornton (Lab)]

My Lords, surely the point here is that organisations, regardless of whether they are public or private, need to pay the living wage and not use exploitative zero-hours contracts for their employees. Can the Minister assure the House that that is not the case with the proposals for the National Gallery? What else are the Government doing to outlaw exploitative zero-hours contracts and ensure that firms pay the living wage?

[Lord Gardiner of Kimble]

I can tell the noble Baroness that, under the National Gallery’s proposals, it was to pay above the London living wage and that there was no zero-hours contract arrangement.