Category: Update

Final Update: Boss balks at bad publicity, Jan finally gets what he’s owed (plus interest).

The franchiser’s husband, who only two weeks ago threatened us with legal action if we continued to follow up on Jan’s unpaid wages, has now arranged the payment of the last amount owed to Jan. This includes the interest that had accrued from their failure to pay the initial wages. It seems that a couple of instagram posts were enough to get the message across that we weren’t planning on stopping so easily.

In typical horeca-boss form, the franchiser seemed to be pretty worried about how his business might be affected by Jan’s mistreatment going public — a lot more worried than they were about paying their workers.

This campaign shows again that when workers can take matters into their own hands, it works! So let’s organise with each other against the systems that bosses use to steal even more from workers than the law already allows.

Stay tuned for news & updates about future campaigns plus other information for horeca workers. And always get in contact if you want to participate, whether you have issues in your own workplace or you just want to join in organising at others!

Previous posts: https://horecaunited.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/02/employer-threatens-ex-employee-with-legal-action-after-refusing-to-provide-a-contract-and-owed-wages/ & https://horecaunited.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/11/new-campaign/

Update: [REDACTED] threatens ex employee with legal action after refusing to provide a contract and owed wages

Note (10/05): Following the resolution of this case, this post has been edited for anonymity. A future update will give more details on the resolution of the case.

Following our last update, the employer, [REDACTED], has paid part of the owed wages. Jan is still owed a considerable amount of money, though, and has yet to see an employment contract and a payslip, which the company is legally obligated to provide. The refusal by [REDACTED] to send a payslip prevents us from seeing which part they have agreed to pay and which part they have refused. We can’t see if they have even attempted any meaningful calculation of how much is owed to begin with. At this point, for all we know, their strategy might just be to throw some sum of money around and hope Jan will settle for less than he’s owed. Still, we see this update as a partial victory: the fact that the employer quickly paid after they felt pressure means that they know they are in the wrong and that this is not a fight they can win. Of course, we don’t plan on stopping until Jan gets what he’s owed and [REDACTED] has at the very least filled their legal obligations.

After we reiterated the employers’ obligation to send a payslip explaining their calculations and the amount they’ve sent, [REDACTED] has threatened legal action against both Jan and Horeca United if we keep pursuing the claim. This suggestion is pretty laughable — he even referenced the legal article which obliges them to provide a payslip in his previous email to us… now he wants to turn around and threaten to take us to court for demanding they abide by it. All workers know how ego-tripping bosses get aggressive when you stand up for yourself, but this is just a sign that they know they’ve been caught messing up and they don’t know what to do. We always have power when we stand united.

Contact us to support the campaign and stay tuned for updates.

Previous article: https://horecaunited.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/11/new-campaign/