Unpaid Salary - Help Required!
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Hi All,
So I started a new job for a magazine publisher recently and all seemed well & good. However, on payday (last friday), nobody got paid. The MD said he could give us cheques (but they would bounce) and assured us that we would be paid by CHAPS yesterday, which didn't happen.
After hiding in his office all day, he announced that the magazine would not go to print next week as they can't pay the printers and, to all intents and purposes, our jobs no longer existed for the time being.
He went on to say that he was aiming to raise finance to set up under a new company name and fold the old limited company and would be in touch to say how things were progressing. He also said that we could continue to attend work to fend off any clients, make excuses etc. etc. He also intimated that if the finance is forthcoming, our jobs will be safe ,but for now, assume you're redundant and "I wouldn't blame anyone for looking around for another job".
It sounds as though he genuinely wants to pay us but I'm owed a month's salary, about £200 in fuel and one month's car allowance.
Does anyone know how best to go about ensuring I get what's owed to me?
Many thanks!
So I started a new job for a magazine publisher recently and all seemed well & good. However, on payday (last friday), nobody got paid. The MD said he could give us cheques (but they would bounce) and assured us that we would be paid by CHAPS yesterday, which didn't happen.
After hiding in his office all day, he announced that the magazine would not go to print next week as they can't pay the printers and, to all intents and purposes, our jobs no longer existed for the time being.
He went on to say that he was aiming to raise finance to set up under a new company name and fold the old limited company and would be in touch to say how things were progressing. He also said that we could continue to attend work to fend off any clients, make excuses etc. etc. He also intimated that if the finance is forthcoming, our jobs will be safe ,but for now, assume you're redundant and "I wouldn't blame anyone for looking around for another job".
It sounds as though he genuinely wants to pay us but I'm owed a month's salary, about £200 in fuel and one month's car allowance.
Does anyone know how best to go about ensuring I get what's owed to me?
Many thanks!
Edited by neil240970 on Thursday 4th November 10:12
Eric Mc said:
Be wary of any attempts to transfer you to a new company i.e. a new employer. If he intends to set up a new company to continue trading and walk away from the liabilities of the current company (what is refered to as Phoenixing), he could be creating massive problems.
If it is a TUPE transfer across then potentially the liabilities will transfer and employees may be able to claim for unlawful deduction of wages from the new company.
neil240970 said:
Hi All,
So I started a new job for a magazine publisher recently and all seemed well & good. However, on payday (last friday), nobody got paid. The MD said he could give us cheques (but they would bounce) and assured us that we would be paid by CHAPS yesterday, which didn't happen.
After hiding in his office all day, he announced that the magazine would not go to print next week as they can't pay the printers and, to all intents and purposes, our jobs no longer existed for the time being.
He went on to say that he was aiming to raise finance to set up under a new company name and fold the old limited company and would be in touch to say how things were progressing. He also said that we could continue to attend work to fend off any clients, make excuses etc. etc. He also intimated that if the finance is forthcoming, our jobs will be safe ,but for now, assume you're redundant and "I wouldn't blame anyone for looking around for another job".
It sounds as though he genuinely wants to pay us but I'm owed a month's salary, about £200 in fuel and one month's car allowance.
Does anyone know how best to go about ensuring I get what's owed to me?
Many thanks!
If i were you i would get your co-workers to go the local dole office ( is it still called that?) and explain the situation, also check with the printers as all may not be as it seems, reopening under another name is possible, but there should be if he is genuine, an official reciver appointed to run? the company and determine if there are any creditors, of which you are one, and would think the printers are another, also there will be his tax bill for him to sort out, HMRC gets first bite at anything left in the pot, best of luck. So I started a new job for a magazine publisher recently and all seemed well & good. However, on payday (last friday), nobody got paid. The MD said he could give us cheques (but they would bounce) and assured us that we would be paid by CHAPS yesterday, which didn't happen.
After hiding in his office all day, he announced that the magazine would not go to print next week as they can't pay the printers and, to all intents and purposes, our jobs no longer existed for the time being.
He went on to say that he was aiming to raise finance to set up under a new company name and fold the old limited company and would be in touch to say how things were progressing. He also said that we could continue to attend work to fend off any clients, make excuses etc. etc. He also intimated that if the finance is forthcoming, our jobs will be safe ,but for now, assume you're redundant and "I wouldn't blame anyone for looking around for another job".
It sounds as though he genuinely wants to pay us but I'm owed a month's salary, about £200 in fuel and one month's car allowance.
Does anyone know how best to go about ensuring I get what's owed to me?
Many thanks!
Edited by neil240970 on Thursday 4th November 10:12
tty of him to do it at payday. Get that cv polished up and get out there.Gassing Station | Jobs & Employment Matters | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff