Low-paid staff working at one of Scotland’s top hotels have won their fight for more than £130,000 in withheld tips.
About 200 employees at Cameron House, which charges up to £1200 for a bottle of wine, will split £138,000 in backdated tip money after lobbying their bosses for months. Trade union reps from Unite Hospitality accused the hotel management of withholding workers’ tips and obscuring where the money was going or how it was being distributed after a 10 per cent service charge was introduced for customers in January.
The hotel on the banks of Loch Lomond, which is owned by an offshore company in the Cayman Islands tax haven, costs up to £1000 a night and has hosted a range of VIPs including Barack Obama, Cameron Diaz and Nicole Richie. In January 2021, the venue was fined £500,000 for failings which led to a fire that claimed the lives of guests Richard Dyson and partner Simon Midgley just days before Christmas in 2017.
