What happens if.............................................
What happens if.............................................
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gorvid

Original Poster:

22,371 posts

256 months

Sunday 5th March 2006
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........your work blows up and you can't go in?

For example:

A gas leak caused an explosion - work is shut / has to shut for good.
Total accident, but you don't have a job anymore.

What happens next?
What should you do?
What if there were no safety measures and it was the fault of the boss?
Compensation?

Advice please!

speedychrissie

2,994 posts

270 months

Sunday 5th March 2006
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gorvid said:

What if there were no safety measures and it was the fault of the boss?
Compensation?


in that case then ofcourse you should be entitled to some form of compensation or atleast "retirement pay" (wrong term but i cant think of a better one). in that situation negligence has meant that you were working in an unsafe environment and you now have no means of income because of it.

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>> Edited by speedychrissie on Sunday 5th March 16:31

J1mmyD

1,823 posts

250 months

Sunday 5th March 2006
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All depends.

It actually happened to a friend of my mother's. Nice man from the gas company comes in to service the boilers .... an hour later, the whole place is an inferno.

In their case, they paid the workers from their own pocket while negotiating with the insurers.

9 months later, there was a brand new factory on the site, most of the contracts were back and all of the workforce were.

simpo two

93,075 posts

296 months

Sunday 5th March 2006
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I'd guess you're still an employee and due to be paid - until and unless they make you redundant.

zed sump

3,142 posts

268 months

Sunday 5th March 2006
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gorvid said:
........your work blows up and you can't go in?

Advice please!


have a cigar














....one of those hamlet ones

srebbe64

13,021 posts

268 months

Sunday 5th March 2006
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zed sump said:
gorvid said:
........your work blows up and you can't go in?

Advice please!


have a cigar














....one of those hamlet ones

The last time he had one there was a gas leak and a bang!

GreenV8S

31,027 posts

315 months

Sunday 5th March 2006
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If they cease trading then you have been made redundant, you would be entitled to payment in lieu of notice. If they want to keep employing you but don't have anything for you to do then they would need to keep paying you.