Pub company cops $2k fine for failure to keep RSA records for bar staff
The company which ran the now defunct Darwin pub Rorkes has been fined $2000 over its failure to keep responsible service of alcohol records for its bar staff.
Darwin Local Court found Monkey Business Holdings Pty Ltd guilty of breaching the Liquor Act for not producing copies of it staff members’ responsible service of alcohol certificates, despite being given more than three months to do so.
Conditions on Rorkes’s liquor licence required all staff to have a responsible service of alcohol certificate within a month from starting work and for certificates to be kept in a file on site. However, former director Mitch McNamee was unable to show police the file on three separate occasions.
The file was missing RSA certificates for nearly half of the bar staff employed at the pub at the time and was also missing paperwork required by the Director-General of licensing.
The pub has been in financial difficulty since at least 2017 and closed recently following revelations McNamee sent messages to staff members saying: “I told you no blacks in my f**king bar”. The venue is currently for lease.
Sheridan Randall, 18th April 2019
