No Pay For Employees
Establishment: North End Pub/Rivergate Brewing
Location: N. Lombard, Portland, OR
Just wanted to inform patrons and potential employees of the North End Pub/Rivergate Brewing located on N. Lombard of the owners less than honest approach to opening and running a business.
These two business partners decided to open a brew pub without the ability to pay their employees. The owners chose to open thier business on the fly in November without proper financial backing. They hired their staff and had many of them working off the clock to help open the place. Only after they opened did they actually have the staff clock in.
When it came time for the first payroll, they were late issuing the checks, split the pay period between two checks, then had trouble having sufficient funds in the bank.
This first payroll was followed by the owners refusing to use their payroll service and started making promises to pay the employees when they could. They said they were waiting on help from investers and from potential loans, which never came.
Consequently, they never issued another paycheck or payed payroll taxes for the employees through January.
Obviously, many of the employees moved on and have still not been payed.
Please comment on this situation and let the public beware. Who really wants to support a business that does not support it’s employees.
The wait to get paid has lasted far too long!
I just noticed that htis buisness is now closed.