Four franchise outlets of a fashionable retail concatenation offering uniforms, apparel and enactment boots for tradies person collapsed with landlords locking up the stores and unit near successful the lurch.
The Totally Workwear branches successful Hoxton Park, Narellan, Eastern Creek and North Parramatta, successful Sydney's westbound and south-west, person ceased trading.
Eviction notices person been stuck to the doors portion unit members person claimed they knew thing was incorrect months ago.
Some person claimed they're owed last wages on with superannuation.
Staff astatine the Hoxton Park franchise received an email successful April telling them they were retired of a job.
The Totally Workwear branches successful Hoxton Park, Narellan, Eastern Creek and North Parramatta, each successful Sydney's southwest, person ceased trading (pictured is simply a Totally Workwear store successful Queensland)
'As you each know, we person encountered immense and sizeable fiscal issues which person present caused america to cease trading,' the email read, news.com.au reported.
'As a result, we request to basal down each employees. We bash instrumentality into consideration, that determination has been a wage rhythm not met.
'We are presently dealing with administrators and liquidators, and are successful the process of selling our businesses.'
The impacted stores person not yet entered administration.
One worker, who chose not to beryllium named, said she noticed banal wasn't being replenished successful September past year.
'I turned up to enactment successful February and determination was a lockout announcement connected the door. The brag said 'have the time off',' she said.
She said she and different unit had entree to immoderate of the franchisee's fiscal figures and she could spot things were 'going bad'.
Totally Workwear describes itself arsenic 'an iconic marque that stocks, supplies and sells iconic workwear, footwear, and information brands'
The idiosyncratic claimed that erstwhile the businesses started to suffer, a mates who'd conscionable started a cleaning concern placed a $7,000 bid for uniforms.
'I can't instrumentality $7,000 disconnected you, I didn't deliberation they were going to get thing for it. Then I thought if I don't instrumentality that money, past nary of america volition get paid. Morally I thought I was doing thing wrong,' she said.
The unit subordinate said it was 'very disheartening' for specified a well-known concern to cease trading, and speculated Totally Workwear's caput bureau knew astir the downfall of the 4 stores.
The impacted franchises are owned by Brett Sargent and his woman Elizabeth.
Totally Workwear has 90 stores crossed Australia.
The institution describes itself arsenic 'an iconic marque that stocks, supplies and sells iconic workwear, footwear, and information brands'.
'Humble, hard-working, and honorable is who we are, operating ever with integrity and a civilization centred connected creating authentic lawsuit connections done community,' their website reads.
'We clasp the user acquisition crossed our retail network, astatine the halfway of our culture. It is our committedness to consistency crossed the user travel that underpins our marketplace starring retail relevance.'
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the caput bureau for comment.
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