A group of Interserve cleaners contracted to work onsite at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been put under disciplinary investigation and could be facing redundancy, after grouping together to write a letter to foreign secretary Philip Hammond on the subject of their pay.

The cleaners are currently paid £7.05 an hour and this will be brought up to £7.20 an hour next April, falling in line with George Osborne’s new national minimum wage. The cleaners were looking to discuss the discrepancy between this wage and the London living wage, as calculated by the Living Wage Foundation, which is £9.15 an hour.

A protest has been planned outside the Foreign Office next Monday.

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