Buoy, it is not easy being a housekeeper these days, huh? Let's see if the USA prosecutors due better with international bankers than NBA superstars.

Twice in one week.  Perhaps International Bankers need to 'HIRE' their legal prostitutes before they come to the USA.  It wasn't like this when Bush was in office, huh?

..."It just blows our mind that this happened again (click title to entry - thank you)," said Joe McInerney, CEO of American Hotel & Lodging Association, the industry's biggest trade group.

New York police arrested Egyptian banker Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, 74, on a charge of sexually assaulting a housekeeper at The Pierre, a luxury hotel on New York's Upper East Side.

When she delivered tissues he'd requested Sunday, he locked her in his room and touched her inappropriately, police said.

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested May 14, accused of a sexual attack on a housekeeper at Manhattan's Sofitel hotel. Hotel managers and employee unions say such incidents are rare, but after the first report, chains reviewed their security procedures. "You can't have employees being scared," McInerney said....

This is where it really gets interesting, though.  I do believe hotel workers need a UNION !  See indeed.

Hyatt offers 98 cleaners new jobs  (click here)

Boston Financial News – Several Hyatt Boston Hotels are Embarrassed by Thoughtless Firing

By Katie Johnston Chase and Megan Woolhouse Globe Staff

Article Courtesy of:  The Boston Globe

Hyatt Hotels Corp., responding to public outcry, political pressure, and threatened boycotts, yesterday offered the 98 housekeepers it fired last month new jobs at their old wages, a move that was met with mixed reaction by those who protested the firings.

Hyatt said it is offering the housekeepers at the three Boston-area Hyatts, who had been abruptly replaced by lower-wage workers, full-time positions with United Service Cos., a Chicago-based staffing organization that the hotel chain uses for contract labor. Hyatt said those who accept the positions will be paid at their full Hyatt wage rate through the end of next year….

 It is EASY TO BE THOUGHTLESS, when the people that work for an international hotel chain seem so much the peon and easily replaced.  Must keep the cusotmers happy, happy, happy.  Except, of course, when those customers can also be employees.

We Should All Be Ashamed of Ourselves  (click here)

By The Editors

May 31, 2011 | 8:14 p.m

It's the last week in May and the weather is finally warm, the Hamptons commute is seasonally torturous, and our aging international businessmen are doing what has become increasingly commonplace this time of year: lecherously pursuing the housekeeping staff through the halls and in the well-appointed rooms of our fine luxury hotels. And by "increasingly commonplace" we mean "twice in two weeks."  Which is far more commonplace than we'd like. Once in two weeks is pushing it.  Twice is just ... embarrassing....