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Marketing company paid just 80p an hour for 70-hour week, workers claim In case brought by GMB, two former workers allege they received average of £60 for six-day week selling door-to-door Joe Sandler Clarke The Guardian, Thursday 26 December 2013 18.23 GMT

Camille Meunier and Jamie Wright are suing the UK's largest door-to-door marketing company, PerDM. Photograph: GMB

Britain's biggest specialist door-to-door marketing company, whose clients include Vodafone and EDF, is being sued by two former workers who say it abused rules on self-employment to pay them the equivalent of 80p an hour for 70-plus-hour weeks. Camille Meunier and Jamie Wright, whose case is being brought by the GMB union, say they received an average of £60 for a six-day-a-week job selling loft insulation and subscriptions to LoveFilm, a DVD and video-on-demand company owned by Amazon. Meunier and Wright, both 21, worked on behalf of two subsidiaries of a Chesterbased company called PerDM during 2012 and 2013. They are seeking more than £22,000 between them for breach of contract, unpaid wages and holiday pay. The jobs, presented as a swift route to management, were described as selfemployed and payable by commission only. A legal claim sent to PerDM and two subsidiaries by the GMB says the pair never saw their contracts and were obliged


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