If a company literally runs out of money to pay wages and is placed in Administration, then you can apply to get your wages through the Redundancy Payments Office (up to a max of 8 weeks wages pegged at £350/wk).

In my instance, the company where I worked wasn’t in administration… we were closed down by the Solicitor’s Regulatory Authority for a number of reasons; one of them being non-payment of wages (it’s coming up ro 7 months since they did not pay wages). We that were at the company have been waiting for a long time for the partner to be declared bankrupt as although there are plenty of default judgements for non-payment of wages, the practice had no assets and no funds. Hence, the only way we could get out wages would be once we knew that the bankruptcy order was in place and so we could go through the Redundancy Payments Office. I hope to be able to claim around £2000 but I’m owed in excess of £3000 so I’ll likely become an unsecured creditor getting miniscule amounts in the pound for the outstanding £1000 once his assets are sold.

Thunderbird 2 all the way!

What I’m about to write looks very wrong: finally getting to know a bankruptcy number of a person. Now that means that £3k in unpaid wages and holiday pay will be mine in about 3 months through the government… except it’s not going to be that much (can only claim for about £2k). But it’s the best news I’ve had relating to my ex-workplace for months!

Last film is the one I’m watching for the umpteenth time- Murder on the Orient Express (the 1974 version with Albert Finney’s ridiculous accent whilst acting as Hercule Poirot). Taken me all this time to find an error in it – roughly 17 minutes in, the train’s in Istanbul station and when the actors go toward the train (it’s the scene after the lady is surrounded by Turkish hawkers) there’s a notice advertising “Côtte D’Azur” in the background. Never ever seen it spelt other than “Côte D’Azur”. Can’t find any reference to it movie mistake websites… so either I’m seeing things, it’s been noted but not worthwhile commenting on or no-one has ever seen that before?!

Tried to get a screen capture

Alternatively You tube video, 7:34 into it

I’ve seen it reported that 7000 to 11000 people turned up.

Most interesting comment I’ve seen today is that EK say that the 2 daily MAN services are more profitable than the 3 daily LGW services. Doesn’t LGW have F class offered?! Interesing trade-off in prospect now for MAN and EK – passenger numbers boosted (driven by the need for F class out of here – think someone should tell them that some airlines believe there no such demand for that class out of a regional, and that they need to stop turning passengers away from MAN) but cargo set to drop. We need the 3rd service soon, or we need Emirates SkyCargo to begin!