More sexual harassment complaints against Edwards

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Fri, 19 Mar 2010 6:45p.m.

Graeme Edwards

Graeme Edwards

A young gay man was recently awarded $15,000 for sexual harassment and unpaid wages - the man responsible for this was Graeme George Edwards, the owner of restaurant El Centro in Auckland's Mission Bay.

Edwards has gone missing, and today his restaurant was closed for the foreseeable future.

But it turns out the young man is not the only one accusing Edwards of sexual harassment.

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15 May 2010 02:27a.m.

Vanessa wrote:

I used to work for graeme as an escort doing prostitute work in Sydney and not only did he not pay me for many jobs he made me do but he used to make me give him oral sex every time i wanted some of the money he owed me. He is a very bad man and no good for nothing. He still owe me over $10,000 and he no give to me. He also make me have sex with him with no condom and I get infection from him.

10 Apr 2010 04:23a.m.

Mexican Chef. wrote:

Hello!. I am a mexican chef. Graeme lied to me in many ways. He "contracted" me to work as the head chef in the restaurant, and he promised me to pay me all my travel expenses from mexico, but he did not pay me... the airplane ticket costed me $2,000 USD!. And i re-designed the menu for "El Centro" and obviously he had to pay me for it, but again, he never pay me... In a few words, he stolen my work. Maybe the people who are reading this, do not believe me, but i have proofs to demonstrate it!. Thanks to God to make justice!.

22 Mar 2010 04:50p.m.

Marie wrote:

I had the "privilege" of working at El Centro. When I started, one of the first things I was told was that waitresses were highly encouraged to not wear bras. My hourly wage was never actually confirmed with me, though I did managed to get paid a fair rate for the hours I worked; after I had given my notice and only because Graeme hoped it would help change my mind about leaving. I feel bad for the other staff, especially the front of house staff, as I clearly managed to get out with far fewer horror stories than most others.I'm interested in seeing how everything pans out in the end...

19 Mar 2010 11:29p.m.

Jay wrote:

Your show regarding the harrasment within the hospo world has only just scratched the surface. As a female chef the comments and harrasment that is aimed at you is terrible, consequently I no work short contracts and mostly out of NZ. Because of the bullying nature of most Head Chefs......like Ramsay, the arseholes of the hospo world make it a very unpleasant industry to work within. I wish you could see more of it to show NZ just what it is like.

19 Mar 2010 07:23p.m.

Chase Coulter wrote:

I work in hospitality and have worked in a number of restaurants. I had the misfortune of being demoted while on holiday buy my owner and had the daughter in law of the owner take my position. i called dozens of lawyers from the phone book and got the same answer from them all. "Due to past experiences we wont take on people of that race". i wont mention the race because its not the issue however when i spoke with the department of labor they were incredibly helpful and if it weren't for the fact i found employment else where i would have found great representation through them.