Mooboo Bubble Tea Gives in To Public Pressure and Pays Staff Wages

A cafe criticised for making trainees work unpaid for 40 hours, without a guaranteed job, has given in to public pressure and started paying training staff wages. 

Mooboo Bubble Tea - which sells the Taiwanese drink topped with tapioca balls - was attacked on social media and by campaign groups. A petition to demand it pay staff properly collected more than 40,000 signatures.

In a statement, Mooboo said trainees would now be paid "company set levels". Emails outlining the original terms were leaked to campaign organisation 38 Degrees the peition company.Gordon Maloney from the group said it was an "outrageous way for MooBoo Bubble Tea to exploit people looking for work". The company, which has stores in Scotland and England, has also been accused of deleting comments on Facebook and blocking people on Twitter who have criticised it for allegedly “exploiting” workers by asking them to work a full week unpaid. A Camapaign was launched by Better Than Zero, a union movement focusing on retail and hospitality in Scotland.

Multiple reports were recieved from people who claimed to have worked the trial period only to not be given a job at the end of it. 

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