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Maybe after a long wait if ACAS pay them

As I say, many (if not most) of the drivers will have been self employed, id guess that far more of the visible face of City Link (i.e. the vans) were not company owned

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Hello? and you didnt get out then?......ooopsadaisy

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I suspect you are right.

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IDFIMH

Staff EMPLOYED by City Link will have their redundancy paid by the state as my drivers did when my bus company went broke 12 years ago.

Self-employed drivers will get sweet f a from anywhere; the contractors may just get a bit of anything that's left. Maybe this debacle will expose the "self-employed-on-a-big-scale" racket for what it is.

It used to be that the Revenue was the preferential creditor. these days they have to take a back seat as the employees are the only preferential creditors and get paid first. Everyone else has to wait to see what's left in the pot, so the poor contractor waiting for his £70k invoices to be paid may be disappointed.

I suppose we all want cheaper parcel deliveries but in the end someone has to pay the price.

meanwhile the insolvency practioners will charge £100 per A4 letter, £200 per hour for a secretary to type it and £10 for a stamp till the available funds (if the owners havent bled it) have run out, the directors will also put a bill for busting the firm...

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I doubt it, its the business model everything from milkmen to quarry tippers work on now

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The directors will get statutory redundancy pay from the state. They can't put in bills for busting the company. Well I suppose they could, but they would be in the long list of creditors who will get nothing. I speak from bitter experience.

I wonder if this will set in process a look by the authorities at the bogus self employment lark.

Be interesting if it did.

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it wasnt bogus, the OD's at Hellmanns had been happy on £160+ per day for many years, some got SO happy they bought extra vans and employed drivers for many years, same at NCN and Concord, the problem isnt the S/E

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Only if they were PAYE employee's i think, directors arent always employees, they can be on the list of creditors though

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