Hays Travel’s self-employed homeworkers miss out on bonus
Hays Travel’s self-employed homeworkers will miss out on getting part of the £1 million bonus the company is giving away to staff after hitting the £1bn sales mark.
Founder and chief executive John Hays announced yesterday all employees will receive £100 for every full year they have served with the company as a thank you for helping achieve the impressive figure.
This means long-standing members of staff could get about £3,000.
Part-time staff will get a pro-rata bonus, but self-employed homeworkers won’t get a cash payout.
Customers will have the chance to win £1,000 over the next 10 days in a competition on the company’s website, while a summer garden party is being organised as a thank you to suppliers.
Returning to his original shop in Seaham to make the announcement, John Hays said: "Over the last 12 months we have just passed over £1bn in sales."
After thanking ‘loyal customers who made it all happen’, he added: "We would be nothing without our staff. All the way down from our chair, Irene, who happens to be my wife.
"I am so proud of you all and as a thank you for our staff we are going to give you £100 for each year that you have worked for us.
"Thank you to everyone who made it possible."
He later told Newcastle-based Chronical Live: "I never had the £1bn figure as a target. I just try to run the business day-to-day as best as I can."
He added: "Since acquiring Bath Travel we have done three or four relatively smaller acquisitions and we have some more openings in the pipeline."
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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