The boss of beleaguered hospitality firm Macmerry has been slammed as a "coward" by his staff after sacking more than 20 of them by email in what union bosses say was a pre-planned mass-firing.
Dundee-based hospitality boss Phil Donaldson laid off workers at the Abandon Ship Glasgow and London bars on Monday, less than two weeks after telling them their jobs were safe. Staff had been told not to come to work at the start of the week because of planned "refurbishments".
By the afternoon, much of the venue had been stripped out - prompting suggestions from unions that the cull had been pre-meditated.
