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Glasgow Live
Glasgow Live
National
Jon Brady & Holly Lennon

Glasgow's Abandon Ship bar to close and staff made redundant with 'immediate effect'

Staff at Glasgow's Abandoned Ship bar will be closing with immediate effect with all current staff handed redundancy notices.

Workers were given redundancy notices by email with boss Phil Donaldson saying "extremely challenging trading conditions" were to blame just weeks after they were given reassurances that their jobs would be safe.

The closure comes just months after almost 80 workers submitted a collective grievance against the company with complaints ranging from sexual harassment and both health and safety and covid breaches through to tax and pension deductions not being passed onto HMRC and pension provider Nest.

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