No attempt was made to hide the identities of people captured in the CCTV vision, which was played to hundreds of Merivale staff at its 2017 awards night.
A former staff member who filmed the video and sent it to the ABC, has condemned the screening of the CCTV vision. The other former staff member said: "In the video, you can kind of hear uncomfortable laughs and sounds of shock. I kind of couldn't believe what I was seeing." "Imagine if you were that person didn't know the security cameras were capturing all of that, let alone going to be played to publicly embarrass you in front of every single Merivale staff," the former employee said.
"The CCTV covers public spaces in our venue, which is both lawful and standard practice in large hospitality venues.