BALTIMORE — Employees at Fells Point Tavern in Baltimore say they haven’t been paid in months after the business suddenly closed last month.
Former employees say they are owed thousands of dollars.
Bartenders say they are left scrambling to find jobs, and the owner of Fells Point Tavern is missing in action and refusing to pay them for their work.
“I’ve been working for free,” bartender J. Stratton said.
Stratton told WJZ he went months working at Fells Point Tavern without getting paid.
“Our checks started going from Friday to now Saturday,” Stratton said. “That was fine, OK, one day no big deal, then it went from Saturday to coming on Monday. Then it went from Monday to Tuesday, then they stopped altogether.”
Stratton says she’s owed about $10,000.
She told our media partner The Baltimore Banner that she had to use her savings, and her cellphone turned off because she was behind on her bills.