A Glasgow music bar embroiled in a bullying row has lost an employment tribunal and been ordered to pay back workers’ lost wages.
Jacqueline Fennessy, then owner of the 13th Note in Glasgow, broke the law when making her employees redundant, the tribunal ruled. She has been told to pay 11 of the affected employees 90 days’ worth of wages, the maximum compensation available.
Unite Hospitality, which was accused of bullying Fennessy at the time, has hailed this as a victory over a “vindictive” owner.
Jacqueline Fennessy accused Unite Hospitality official Bryan Simpson of “bullying and intimidation”
Fennessy, 59, failed to consult with workers and to comply with redundancy laws when the venue had to close suddenly last year, the employment judge Mark Whitcombe ruled. She let go of her 18 staff after mice were found by
