TGI FRIDAY’S rescue deal has left a bad taste — for hundreds of restaurant workers who will miss out on redundancy pay and hard-earned tips. A total of 1,012 jobs have gone after administrators said the sale to Breal Capital and Calveton would cause 35 eateries to close . 4 Axed TGI Friday's workers are to miss out on redundancy pay and tips Credit: Alamy Impacted staff were also told the firm would not be responsible for redundancy pay , accrued holiday or tips.
The burden will instead go to the taxpayer, via the Insolvency Service. The majority were on zero hours contracts. One employee said anonymously: “I did 35 hours last week and earnt tips because I was telling customers we were fine and going to be saved.
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