Sacked Bowl staff allowed in only through back door
FURIOUS MFA Guernsey Bowl staff who turned up for their redundancy meeting yesterday morning said they ‘literally were not allowed inside the front door’.
Instead, they were told to wait outside, in the alley by the back door of the building, before being asked to come inside one by one, given a letter formally announcing their redundancy and then sent back outside.
The staff found out only on Thursday morning they were losing their jobs when, after being open for about two hours, a manager from a different MFA centre from the UK entered, asked for the keys from local manager Paul Hurel and closed the building.
‘We are not happy, they just lied and lied and lied and lied to us, even telling us everything was fine about an hour before we were kicked out,’ Mr Hurel said.
‘They kicked customers out too, people were in bowling.
‘We were told we would have a meeting this morning, but we expected to all be in a room and talked to, not just given a letter through the back door.’
When approached for comment, MFA said all relevant staff were ‘out of the office’. This response was repeated a number of times through Thursday and yesterday.
However, in the redundancy letters, MFA’s operations director said: ‘When you commenced employment with MFA Bowl it was envisaged that your contract of employment would be permanent, and that the company would have sufficient work to carry on trading at existing staff levels throughout the year.
‘Unfortunately, the level of trade throughout the year has not lived up to expectations. Consequently, the company has been left with no alternative but to cease trading at this site, as there is insufficient turnover to make the business viable.’
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