A significant soccer sponsor lived the excessive life as he confronted a workers mutiny over unpaid wages. Hugh Clarke loved a champagne way of life as he signed up for sponsorship offers for prime soccer golf equipment, resembling Livingston and Falkirk.
Final week, the Document reported how he faces authorized motion by golf equipment to get better money they are saying was not paid to them by his agency Clarke ePOS. The Document can now reveal no less than six staff of Clarke ePOS UK Ltd took motion to say unpaid wages.
The workers both resigned or had been sacked after they demanded to be paid, forcing them to get their wages by means of third events, such because the ACAS arbitration service.
Dad-of-two Russell Cameron labored for 2 months on the ePOS HQ within the Eurocentral workplace in Lanarkshire. He ended up getting no wages over Christmas. He gained a settlement after going to ACAS and Clarke ended up getting fined.
Russell, from Paisley, mentioned: “When pay day got here I used to be advised that I used to be getting nothing for one more month due to mendacity time, which wasn’t within the contract. I let him know I wasn’t completely happy and he sacked me for supposed gross misconduct, with none listening to or proper to enchantment.
"I needed to battle to get the cash due and I didn’t receives a commission till final month. He was telling workers his accountant put £80,000 in his pension account by mistake.”
One other member of workers advised how Clarke had an offended meltdown within the workplace in February after two staff determined they wanted to go away attributable to no wages being paid.
The employee mentioned: “Hugh got here into the workplace and was screaming “you f****** a********, wtf are you doing? He hammered a fist on his desk and mentioned we had been screwing him over.” Clarke then walked one employee out of the workplace.
One other member of workers mentioned: “He owed tens of 1000's in salaries and refused to pay however we may see him popping up at Livingston FC matches within the hospitality space, doing the entire VIP factor.
"He additionally was telling folks he’d purchased a house in Gran Canaria and he’d been over there on the identical time workers had been being left with nothing. He additionally had the cheek to promote for employees – but couldn’t pay the workers he had.”
The Document final week advised how Clarke ePOS UK Ltd was accused of reneging on offers. In addition to Falkirk and St Mirren, he was concerned with Glasgow Rocks basketball workforce.
Proprietor Duncan Smillie, who can be a director of Partick Thistle, advised us: “This man has been a charlatan, who gave us so many tall tales and excuses. Month after month he was giving us excuses.”
Authorized motion has been launched by Falkirk FC and Glasgow Rocks. Strathclyde Sirens professional netball workforce additionally declare to have been left excessive and dry by Clarke. Livingston FC and Ayr junior workforce Whitletts Victoria reduce all ties with the sponsor.
Clarke contacted the Document to say that he's taking authorized motion towards golf equipment that named him for non-payment of sponsorship money. On the disputes with workers over wages, he mentioned: “All that stuff is being handled.”
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