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STUDENTS at Kilbreda College are close to finalising their designs that will be put up in Mentone as part of the Mentone Public Art Project. Artist Paola Ibarra Llano has been working alongside thirteen Year 10 students on the project. The students will design art for electricity poles and will have a large scale mural put up on Como Parade. Kilbreda College principal Nicole Mangelsdorf said “having the opportunity to work alongside an international artist and produce artworks for the community to enjoy is a wonderful learning experience for our students.” Poles to paint: International artist Paola Ibarra Llano (centre) alongside students from Kilbreda College. They are working together on designs which will be put onto Mentone light poles. Picture: Gary Sissons
Former Bay Hotel workers push for pay Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au A PUSH for former employees of the Bay Hotel in Mordialloc to be paid is gaining momentum, after workers made public claims that they are still owed wages. The hotel suddenly shut its doors last month. Workers have now gone public with allegations that they are still owed
pay from their time in employment at the restaurant. A social media campaign titled “#MakeTheBayPay” has gathered momentum, with an online petition gathering over 1500 signatures. Hospo Voice, a hospitality union, has been advocating for workers at the Bay Hotel to be paid the wages they claim they are entitled to. They have been sharing testimonies from former Bay Hotel employees on their social media
channels. “Workers from the Bay Hotel in Mordialloc have been left jobless and are owed more than a million dollars by their boss,” one post on the Hospo Voice Facebook page read. “In February this year Bay Hotel’s 35 workers began noticing their pay was late. Then it stopped. But they kept on working, because they didn’t know what else to do. Weeks and weeks went by without staff being paid. Many staff
are owed about eight weeks of wages, as well as all their annual leave and long service leave. One worker is owed $13,000.” Another post from Hospo Voice claimed that the owner of the Bay Hotel sold the venue’s “bricks and mortar for $6.15 million and began leasing it back from a new landlord. He has not given workers a straight answer about what happened to that money.” The restaurant closed down in early
May, with a notice of termination of lease and re-entry appearing on the venue’s door notifying that “the tenant has failed to remedy breaches notified to it through a formal notice of breach dated 16 April 2019 within fourteen days after service of that notice”. The shutdown of the establishment has not been mentioned on the venue’s website or social media channels. Continued Page 4