IWW ÍSLAND – list of shame

Tag: claims of physical threats

Restaurant Hraun
In 2019, Heimildin reported the story of an employee who was fired after going to the union for assistance 🇮🇸. Here is what the newspaper reports:
- The worker was not paid overtime in this hotel restaurant managed by an owner with a history of bankruptcies.
- The worker was forced to pay the owner to live in a very dirty and unsanitary room. There was no renting contract, which is illegal.
- The manager fired the employee after he went to talk to the union.
- The owner made physical threats to the worker and another former worker when the story was made public.
- The owner said he would not pay the last month of salary.
Source published in Februar 2015:
- Starfsmanni vikið úr starfi eftir að hann leitaði til stéttarfélagsins – Heimildin
Hraun eldhús ehf. (kt: 551214-1680); declared bankrupt: 03.10.2019; ceased operations under this kennitala: 03.01.2020 (company registry)
Travelshift and Guide to Iceland
In 2018, Heimildin published several articles and reported the following:
- A n employee was almost driven out of the country 🇮🇸 as a consequence of being fired of her job as a journalist because she refused to work on her free time.
- The owner of the company had a physically and mentally threatening behaviour. The fear for physical assault that the worker speaks about is illustrated in a second article 🇮🇸 reporting that the owner has a legal history of violence.
- The owner of the company asked for too much work of too few people and showed no satisfaction. He humiliated workers in front of the others. This is backed up by former employees and in two similar stories in the article.
- In another article, the newspaper reports that the employees are tired of being spied on as the company uses a surveillance software 🇮🇸. The software offers functionalities that are against the rules of the Data Protection Authority.
Sources published in November and December 2018:
Travelshift ehf. (kt: 530612-2600), real owner: Ingólfur Abraham Shahin (company registry);

Guide to Iceland ehf. (kt: 620519-0650), real owner also Ingólfur Abraham Shahin (company registry)
Mandi
In 2022, Heimildin published the story of a female worker who was assaulted by the male boss, who was also the landlord of her room:
- The owner, who has a legal history of violence, assaulted her physically 🇮🇸 and verbally and sent her to the hospital.
- He had previously lied to the renter about the condition of the rented room.
- He had sexually harassed her, threatened and blackmailed her into not reporting that sexual harassment by him and a roommate, and gone through her personal belongings.
- During the investigation for the assault, the restaurant staff assisted the boss to prevent the investigators retrieving incriminating camera recordings.
Source published in November 2022:
- Eigandi Mandi ákærður fyrir líkamsárás: „Hann sparkaði í magann á mér og sló mig í höfuðið, ítrekað“ – Heimildin
HALAL ehf. (kt: 490911-1540), real owner: Óli Valur Steindórsson (not the person mentioned in the article.) (company registry)

Tag: claims of physical threats

Restaurant Hraun

Travelshift and Guide to Iceland

Mandi