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Staff at The Chicken chain Nando ' s claim that They have sometimes, for the cleaning of the restaurants, without having to pay.

Current and former Nando's employee, said several restaurants in the BBC, They had to scrub the flock and disinfect toilets after stopped.

A claimed that the same mops were in the toilets and kitchens, while others said They treated chicken without gloves.

Nando's said it, The Employee is to pay your policy properly, and it maintains the highest cleaning standards.

the Majority of its branches are not committed to cleaning employ forces - the Nando's described as a standard in the food service industry.

The Company , which added More Than 400 restaurants in the UK: "the cleaning is an integral part of The Restaurant -work, and is crucial for the maintenance of high standards of health and hygiene, which we take very seriously. "

'Should work faster,'

thousands of people Signed a online petition Signed Nando ' s a review of the cleaning and compensation policy.

"The Manager at would eat us and not fit for late stays. When we complained, we were told just to comment, we should have worked faster," people.

Most of the Nando's stores use a special cleaner

The BBC spoke with five current and former Nando's employees - called "Nandocas" by The Company - all of them requested anonymity.

For Most , Nando's was your First job. Together, They worked in seven different restaurants throughout England and Scotland within the last 12 months.

They were largely free about Nando's as a workplace. "You make friends... it's social," said one. "It has saved me £45 per week in free food," added another.

But almost all of the problems to the fore, such as the closure layers to be managed, and some of the alleged incidents of poor cleaning practices.

They all described the closure moves to the end, as a manager known as a "Patrao" - Signed out of The Restaurant for the next day.

The System automatically clocks employees, unless the Manager override, but that is not always the case, the worker claimed.

"I would like my payroll on a Friday and found that I had less money than expected, because you said in The Hours on my final layers," a 22-year-old, who we are, calls Suzanne,.

"There was a time where we would run over and finished around 02:30 in The Morning and the Manager is already on The System and you would no longer be on The Extra -Hours had. "

More Than 10 reviews about Nando's posted mention Glassdoor, unpaid overtime

"would you clocked in early and I thought that was a normal thing. I just thought, you pay us for The Extra Hours ," the 19-year-old Jenny, not her real name, who worked in a Nando's said in Cheshire.

"I have colleagues to ask" are we paid for, anyway?" and She Said . "to get we really paid for it, you need to have errors to them.

"you have to ask [Manager]" can I pay The Extra for the close' and you would not always do it actually. "

for A current employee working in The Kitchen of Nando's in the south-west of England, said that he was almost always right to overtime pay.

But there were occasional errors. "We had an employee that said if you are [his lessons] has not paid due to completely wrong, so the manager gave him The Money out of your own pocket," the 20-year-old.

'Same mops used,'

Several of those who spoke to the BBC, said Nando's uses an industry-standard color-coded system to separate cleaning devices. For example, a green mop is used in kitchens, while a red mop is for cleaning toilets.

"Suzanne, who worked in a Nando's claimed to be in Manchester City Centre , you rarely saw the red MOP-head used in the 12 months that you worked there.

"The Kitchen Staff close First . You would not really take the time to the correct coloured mop," She Said .

"every bucket or mop, that was a huge problem, because everything would be contaminated in The Kitchen , in the toilets. "

Meanwhile, Jenny claimed that she was required to cook chicken and clean toilets without protection for a week because of a supply Problem.

"This means that raw chicken had to be tormented [cooked], without hair nets or gloves, and even the toilets are cleaned, if we have the option of wearing gloves at all," She Said .

Nando's - which has around 20,000 employees in the UK - has also responded to complaints that mention unpaid overtime and exhausting cleaning work on The Employment review site Glassdoor.

employment lawyer Katie Mahoney, the Manager controls the timing out of said system could occur a violation of trust, which entitled it may be, "The Employee back and claim constructive dismissal".

"Depending on the terms of The Contract , you may be able to argue that the failure to pay for The Hours you have worked, to an illegal deduction from wages," she added.

Staff cleaning said tasks ranging from mopping floors to bleach toilet bowls and urinals

The petition to Nando's was to Organize a review of the cleaning and of the remuneration policy on the campaign website, the BBC said, he is supported by 551 people who said They work there. It has so far brought More Than 3,700 signatures.

refers to The BBC, The Company has "strengthened" his clocking-out policy to the managers, as a result of the petition.

Organize-founder Nat Whalley said: "hundreds of Nando's employees are now talking together, the missing numbers to eradicate. "

A Nando's spokeswoman told the BBC: "We refute wholeheartedly the accusation that we ask or expect our employees to do the unpaid work.

"Without exception, our policy in all of our restaurants all have to pay our Staff for all The Work you do, and we take this seriously incredible.

"If human errors do not occur at all, is to fix it immediately. "

"As a standard in the industry, cleaning is an essential role for the employees, and this is clear, all of the candidates," They added.

"the cleaning is an integral part of The Restaurant -work, and is crucial for the maintenance of high standards of health and hygiene, which we take very seriously. Each employee is asked to clean will be a full training. "

The spokesman said: "99% of our restaurants around the country have a rating of four or five under the food Hygiene scheme".

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