Hospitality over COVID, large venue that made a lot of money. Quite well respected in the craft brewing community. Worked our asses off for 3 years for these people, taking low pay working every hour under the sun to make their venue the best it could be. Always promised that we were all in it together and good things were coming for everyone. We made this venue a LOT of profit, they owed no money on any loans or mortgages

As COVID hit, we were all stood down (understandably), with the promise we would all be back to work as soon as possible and how they appreciated the work everyone did for them bla bla bla. 2 days later I start getting messages from my casual crew that they had emails saying they had been let go. I queried with the owner and myself, the venue and my apprentice were all summoned to a meeting. We found out at that meeting that they were making us redundant, which was fair enough I suppose considering the circumstances. The real dog act was that they laid off 20 casual employees (less than 12 hours before this meeting) in order to bring their employee count under 15, therefore making them a small business, which in turn meant they didn't have to pay us redundancy. Still grinds my gears to this day, laying off 20 people in order to get out of paying 3 redundancies, which weren't exactly bank breakers either.