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Panic buttons for New York hotel workers

9 FEB: Hotels in Manhattan will provide employees with panic buttons as part of a new seven-year labour contract. The move comes just nine months after a highly-publicised incident in which former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexually assaulting a maid in his Manhattan hotel suite.

But neither union officials nor the owner of the hotel, the Sofitel New York, have linked that matter to the latest development, the New York Times reports.

The contract provision calls for hotels to equip employees with "devices to be carried on their persons at work that they can quickly and easily activate to effectively summon prompt assistance to their location."

The devices, to be available withion one year, will be distributed to housekeepers, room-service waiters and attendants who stock mini-bars.

 

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News in Brief for 18 May

UPGRADE DELAY Air NZ says it’s new 'OneUp' bidding system for upgrades will now apply for travel from 12 July. It was to take effect 30 May.

AIRPORT SACKING A top executive at Berlin’s new airport has been fired after it was announced that the airport will now not open till March next year because of problems with fire safety system. "He had trouble recognising when things were going wrong", Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit told reporters yesterday. The airport was to open next month.

FLORIDA SURGE Illustrating in part the huge drawing power of major amusement parks, Florida tourism authorities announced yesterday that the state hosted an estimated 23.4 million visitors in just the first three months of this year.

EUROPE CUTBACK Royal Caribbean is reducing the number of ships it deploys in Europe , cutting it to nine next year from 12 this year. Currently it’s offering 276 sailings to 88 ports on 58 Europe itineraries.
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