Employees of enormously popular Brisbane doughnut chain Doughnut Time are taking the company to Fair Work over unpaid wages. As many as 35 workers across the company’s 15 Australian stores allege they’re owed more than $70,000 in pay, the Courier Mail reports. It’s the latest in a series of blows for Doughnut Time owner Damian Griffiths, who lost control of Alfred & Constance and Limes Hotel in late December; and whose Bubbles Bar and Bistro company went into liquidation at the start of this month, after it earlier sold Les Bubbles the restaurant as a going concern to Doughnut Time CEO and Managing Director Dan Strachotta.

The Doughnut Time staff claim the money is owed on unpaid shifts with some employees missing up to three weeks of pay. Former Doughnut Time chef Kimmy Mi Kim told the Courier the company first began defaulting on pay last September, with delays or more than four weeks for some staff. Wages have since been paid sporadically. Kim was among several staff members from Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney who left the business at the end of January, after having not been paid since January 7. A group of Brisbane workers confronted management about the situation and were told they would be paid in time, although the company couldn’t set a firm date. When a January 13 deadline passed without payment they reported the issue to Fair Work, despite a company accountant telling one worker that its cashflow situation would soon improve.