Recruiter is ‘owed thousands of dollars’

BUNDALL recruitment services company OmniRecruit claims it is owed tens of thousands of dollars by embattled McLaren’s Landing manager Jason Nicholls.

OmniRecruit managing director Darren Winmill claims a payment by Mr Nicholls of $3000 to his company for hospitality staff on February 13 was subsequently revoked by the bank due to concerns the original payment by Mr Nicholls had been unauthorised.

Mr Winmill had requested the part payment after Mr Nicholls allegedly failed numerous times to pay for services provided by OmniRecruit, racking up tens of thousands of dollars debt in the process.

Mr Nicholls is the subject of numerous allegations that he charged people for Christmas parties at the South Stradbroke Island resort that were never delivered.

“I called my bank Scottish Pacific to confirm the transaction on February 13, which they did,” Mr Winmill said.

“I then released the staff to him, who were waiting at the marina.

“However, late last month my bank told me that the cardholder had disputed the transaction and it had been unauthorised.”

The money was then taken out of his account.

When he called Westpac, which held the cardholders’ account, he was told the cardholder was not Mr Nicholls.

A Westpac employee wrote to him that the “Cardholder did not authorise or participate in this transaction and therefore will be processing chargeback to your account”.

Mr Winmill first started supplying hospitality staff to Mr Nicholls in December of last year.

“We pay our staff weekly, wages, superannuation, work cover, all of that,” he said.

“We are not a big corporation.”

Mr Nicholls declined to comment.