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However, if they'd made the decision to pay people a reasonable wage in the first place, they'd not have this issue - and the staff might have been happier and more productive if they didn't need to forage in bins on the way home from a shift.
Fuckin' A, I find it's pretty hard to produce a smile when I know I earn 1/3rd of what the other staff get despite working similar hours.
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It's an interesting one, that - you write your business plan based on your cost forecasts, and in this case the management are trying to stick to their original forecast.
However, if they'd made the decision to pay people a reasonable wage in the first place, they'd not have this issue - and the staff might have been happier and more productive if they didn't need to forage in bins on the way home from a shift.
The current management had the opportunity to turn this whole thing into a massive positive- handled well they could have given in gracefully to the request for the living wage and then generated a lot of positive press.
However, now they simply look vindictive, and as the cinema is part of the largest cinema chain in Europe it's not as if the Ritzy is going to go bust - unless having to pay an additional couple of quid an hour is enough to destroy the profits for the entire Enterprise.