Edinburgh Filmhouse staff left on breadline with no pay after sudden closure
dailyrecord.co.ukStaff at Edinburgh Filmhouse say they have been left on the breadline and are struggling to cope after the company suddenly went into administration last month.
Many working in the industry in Scotland have been left with no pay since the closure on October 6 and a fundraising page has now been set up to try and support dozens of staff from the fallout.
A woman who worked as a supervisor for the cinema has told Edinburgh Live how a clause in her contract meant she was given just one week's redundancy pay and is now struggling to survive in a cost of living crisis.
Patti Mroz, 26, said: "We got an email around 5.20pm the day before the meeting. It was a very ominous email and didn't say much."Most of my colleagues thought it couldn't be that bad as we have had last minute before and if it was really urgent they would have held it that evening."Some just suspected that they could be changing the opening hours."She continued: "The meeting was less than an hour long, they were not sympathetic about the situation at all and then rushed everyone out of the building, only keeping some staff for admin."The company immediately said they would not be paying anyone for the hours we had worked already in October or giving out any redundancy pay and said we would have to go to the government to claim pay."It was very badly organised.
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