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Gary Neville has made £70million from football and up to 60 business interests but some staff at his Manchester hotel claimed that they were overworked, underpaid, underappreciated and 'not treated equally' by 'difficult management', MailOnline can reveal today.
The millionaire, 47, a member of the Labour party, lectured millions watching the World Cup Final about workers' rights and compared the treatment of NHS staff to the migrant workers who built the stadiums in Qatar, where up to 6,500 died in 11 years.
But while using his platform on TV to present himself as a people's champion, online comments from some of Mr Neville's past and present employees suggest he may need to improve working conditions for his own staff.
One former worker at his Hotel Football said: 'If you love being overworked and underappreciated then you've found you calling', adding: 'Management only interested in turning a profit and don't really care how they achieve this'.
Another waitress said it was an 'unfair' place to work, adding: 'I didn't feel welcome in the team and management was not treating everybody equally'. She said there were no positives about working there.
Gary Neville denies he is a champagne socialist and spoke out about workers' rights. MailOnline can reveal that some of his own staff have felt badly treated over pay, overtime and equality
This former waitress at Hotel Football, owned by Gary Neville, described being treated unequally by bosses on a one star Glassdoor review
On Indeed, some workers said that it was a bad place to work where staff are 'overworked and underappreciated'
Mr Neville told ITV viewers: 'We should detest low pay, we should detest poor accommodation and working conditions. We can’t have people being paid an absolute pittance to work. It shouldn’t happen here [in Qatar]. But it shouldn’t happen with the nurses in our country either where our nurses are having to fight for an extra pound or two pounds'.
Today he laughed off claims he is the 'definition of a Champagne socialist' and refused to apologise.
Several people who worked at Mr Neville's Hotel Football in Manchester criticise working conditions at Mr Neville's flagship business also owned by Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Phil Neville.
Earlier this month a waitress at the Old Trafford hotel vented her anger on the Glassdoor website - an online forum where former employees anonymously review companies and reveal their pay. She said in her two-star review of the business that the cons of the job were the pay, long hours, difficult management and no progression.
In 2019, a 'current employee' on the Indeed website declared: 'If you love being overworked and underappreciated then you've found you calling'.
'Typically understaffed and overworked. Training is non existent. Always work over my contracted hours and never get overtime pay, I was told to take time in lieu but that's impossible when they are no staff to cover that', they said.
In another review entitled: 'Amateurs and greedy', an anonymous worker wrote: 'Senior management is more concerned about cutting costs rather than generating money, providing a good service and good working conditions. Not a good employer'.
Hotel Football's overall rating is 3.6 out of 5. And has some positive reviews. Several workers praised 'good hourly pay' and 'flexible hours'.
Manchester United, which is across the road, has a rating of 4.2. MailOnline has asked Hotel Football to comment.
Neville is a Labour supporter but has long dismissed suggestions that he was a 'woke Leftie' and described himself as 'a capitalist' and 'entrepreneurial businessman who likes to make a profit'.
