Boston (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick has instructed state employees to stop doing business with Hyatt hotels until it rehires 100 housekeepers it fired last month.
Hyatt Hotel Corp., citing declining revenues, laid off the Boston-area housekeepers and replaced them with lower paid workers from a Georgia company.
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In a letter Tuesday to chief executive officer Mark Hoplamazian, Patrick called the company's treatment of employees "substandard." He cited reports that the laid off employees trained their replacements after being told they were vacation fill-ins.
Patrick urged the company to work with staff on its problems, rather "than tossing them out unceremoniously to fend for themselves."
The hotel did not immediately comment, but said it would release a statement later Wednesday.
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