CBD Pub The Butcher’s Arms Accused of wage theft
A pub’s online booking system was hacked.
And screenshots of the system at the CBD Pub The Butcher’s Arms were subsequently posted on an industry Facebook page.
As reported in Broadsheet, the screenshots from Scott Taylor’s CBD pub, which opened in December, appeared on the Facebook page for WA Bartenders, a hospitality industry group.
And customers then received an email.
“It’s only fair that you know certain information before you part with your hard earned cash,” said the email. “Last Wednesday our staff walked out as we have not paid any of them for four weeks. We still owe former members of our team at least 2weeks (sic) worth of wages, which we have no intention to pay. We have not registered our employees with the ATO either. Which means we get to keep that money!!!”
There were a whole lot of comments.
The Butcher’s Arms management left a comment saying that the shots “were hacked by someone recently fired for being on drugs.”
The screenshots were subsequently removed from Facebook by the original poster.
The person who posted the shots told Broadsheet she received the screenshots from a friend’s mother who had forwarded it to her via Twitter.
Taylor told Broadsheet he suspects the pub’s system was hacked by disgruntled former employee. Taylor alleges that employee was dismissed from a shift for being intoxicated.
The pub meanwhile continues to operate.
Scott Taylor and manager Liam Jones told Broadsheet there was no staff walkout. They also denied that staff members are owed any wages or that the venue has neglected its obligations to the ATO.
“All our staff have been and will continue to be paid,” Jones told Broadsheet. He said the allegations were “the biggest crock of shit I’ve ever come across”.
“Just for once I’d like some attention paid to the work I did putting in a lot of effort to make sure that all of my staff at my previous venues were paid what was owed to them,” he told Broadsheet.
Leon Gettler, 31st August 2018
