> JOBS AGONY New Glasgow hotel ‘CLOSES with 200 staff axed’ just days before Christmas
>Unite Hospitality tweeted that their members were told today the hotel is to close with immediate effect
>
>Jennifer Jones Jordan Tennant
>
>Published: 13:32, 19 Dec 2023Updated: 14:32, 19 Dec 2023
>A BRAND new Glasgow hotel is set to close immediately with “200 staff” axed less than a week before Christmas, a trade union has claimed.
>
>Virgin Hotels on the city’s Clyde Street was recently opened in August this year.
>But Unite Hospitality, who represents workers at the venue, has claimed their members have been informed today the hotel is to close with immediate effect – six days before Christmas.
>
>The trade union added: “The CEO flew in from the US but couldn’t even answer whether workers will get paid for hours worked.”
>
>One former employee told the Scottish Sun: “Virgin Hotels in Glasgow makes 200 staff redundant days before Christmas
>
>”We were told business as usual and our jobs were safe and now we’re hit with this just days before Christmas.
>”We’ve been forced to cancel Christmas this year.
>
>”I’ve maxed out credit cards and taken loans from my family – now I have no income to pay them at the end of the month.”
>
>The future of the luxury venue was plunged into uncertainty when Lloyds Development Group, which owns the building, was forced to enter administration last month.
>
>Interpath Advisory were appointed on December 1, 2023 as Insolvency Advisors for as Insolvency Practitioners to Lloyds Developments Limited who owns the property.
>It is understood the Virgin Group had its bid to help rescue the hotel rejected by the lender.
>
>The Virgin Hotel on Clyde Street was due to open in December 2022 but was delayed finally opening in August this year.
>
>Three – yet unfinished – suites were set to open in 2024, alongside the Funny Library Coffee Shop and Kasbah Tamadot Suite.
>
>The hotel also has two restaurants, the Highyard Mezzanine and Commons Club.
>
>All Virgin Hotels are owned and managed independently.
>
>It is only Virgin Hotels Glasgow that has been impacted by the administration process.
>
>Virgin Hotels manages the property for the building owner under a standard hospitality management agreement.
>
>Virgin Hotels have been approached for comment.
>
>More to Follow.
Absolutely disgraceful, workers being punished for the sins of massive piles of poorly managed money.
I hope they all get what they’re due, one way of another
Modern life in a modern UK is an American suit, fresh off a private jet, sacking 200 people at Xmas on behalf of a grinning narcissist billionaire who spent billions on the shittiest space project in history that flies other millionaires to the edge of space for a 5 minute gawp out a windae.
It boggles my mind that business people can get loans / a line of credit based on a business plan that doesn’t last more than six months.
If you were a dog walking business or a nail bar, that might be OK, but a massive hotel that needed to be fitted out with 200 staff?
Really?
If it’s anything like Ireland the hotel will be housing a couple of hundred refugees and the hotel will get a big nice day government contract for the hassle, while staff have nowhere to go C#nts!
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> JOBS AGONY New Glasgow hotel ‘CLOSES with 200 staff axed’ just days before Christmas
>Unite Hospitality tweeted that their members were told today the hotel is to close with immediate effect
>
>Jennifer Jones Jordan Tennant
>
>Published: 13:32, 19 Dec 2023Updated: 14:32, 19 Dec 2023
>A BRAND new Glasgow hotel is set to close immediately with “200 staff” axed less than a week before Christmas, a trade union has claimed.
>
>Virgin Hotels on the city’s Clyde Street was recently opened in August this year.
>But Unite Hospitality, who represents workers at the venue, has claimed their members have been informed today the hotel is to close with immediate effect – six days before Christmas.
>
>The trade union added: “The CEO flew in from the US but couldn’t even answer whether workers will get paid for hours worked.”
>
>One former employee told the Scottish Sun: “Virgin Hotels in Glasgow makes 200 staff redundant days before Christmas
>
>”We were told business as usual and our jobs were safe and now we’re hit with this just days before Christmas.
>”We’ve been forced to cancel Christmas this year.
>
>”I’ve maxed out credit cards and taken loans from my family – now I have no income to pay them at the end of the month.”
>
>The future of the luxury venue was plunged into uncertainty when Lloyds Development Group, which owns the building, was forced to enter administration last month.
>
>Interpath Advisory were appointed on December 1, 2023 as Insolvency Advisors for as Insolvency Practitioners to Lloyds Developments Limited who owns the property.
>It is understood the Virgin Group had its bid to help rescue the hotel rejected by the lender.
>
>The Virgin Hotel on Clyde Street was due to open in December 2022 but was delayed finally opening in August this year.
>
>Three – yet unfinished – suites were set to open in 2024, alongside the Funny Library Coffee Shop and Kasbah Tamadot Suite.
>
>The hotel also has two restaurants, the Highyard Mezzanine and Commons Club.
>
>All Virgin Hotels are owned and managed independently.
>
>It is only Virgin Hotels Glasgow that has been impacted by the administration process.
>
>Virgin Hotels manages the property for the building owner under a standard hospitality management agreement.
>
>Virgin Hotels have been approached for comment.
>
>More to Follow.
Absolutely disgraceful, workers being punished for the sins of massive piles of poorly managed money.
I hope they all get what they’re due, one way of another
Modern life in a modern UK is an American suit, fresh off a private jet, sacking 200 people at Xmas on behalf of a grinning narcissist billionaire who spent billions on the shittiest space project in history that flies other millionaires to the edge of space for a 5 minute gawp out a windae.
It boggles my mind that business people can get loans / a line of credit based on a business plan that doesn’t last more than six months.
If you were a dog walking business or a nail bar, that might be OK, but a massive hotel that needed to be fitted out with 200 staff?
Really?
If it’s anything like Ireland the hotel will be housing a couple of hundred refugees and the hotel will get a big nice day government contract for the hassle, while staff have nowhere to go C#nts!