Staff at a popular inner-north pizza restaurant with a chequered business history say they are owed tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid entitlements and superannuation after the business suddenly closed.
“I feel like I’m sending emails to myself,” he said. “This is all one-sided emails I’ve been sending him. Now it’s been like four and a half months. He never texted us back, just a courtesy message he sent to us in the [WhatsApp] group that said ‘hey, guys hope you’re well, I was a bit sick. Now let’s figure out a payment plan’.” Yet the staff say they haven’t been contacted since.
A spokeswoman for the Fair Work Ombudsman confirmed it was investigating the company that ran the popular pizza parlour. Three hospitality companies Zeidan served as director of – 5 Ships at Sea , The Umpire Strikes Back and 4 Ships at Sea – went into liquidation between August 2018 and December 2019.The Grace Darling, in Smith Street, Collingwood, and Lazerpig, also in Smith Street, continued to trade under new ownership structures.
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