Hi to everyone,

I was looking for some advice. I was made redundant on the 11/6/2010 after 7 years with my employer.( company A) I believe that we were trading whilst insolvent for at least 2/3 months.( there has to be some legal implication there?)
The company made 14 redundancies on the 27th May and a further 11 on the 11th June. None of the 25 staff received wages from May and no redundancy payment either. There was no legal representation present at the individual meetings and we were not given any type of payment schedule, all we were told was that you were being made redundant due to the economic climate and that we would have to claim through the national insurance fund on a RP1 form.
On the 21/6/2010 the company officially went into adminstration and everybody has received letters from the administrators. Company A assets were bought back from the administrators by the 2 directors of company A for a fee of £150k. They now own company B and continue to trade from the same buildings as though noting had happened..... I feel that I must point out at this point that company A left behind nearly £4 million of debt!!!

1-Company B have advertised in the local paper for sales staff! Do they not have an obligation to offer any previous employee their old job back?

2-I was earning considerably more than the £380 limit set by the secretary of state, can I take the 2 directors to an Employment Tribunal?

3-Why should the national insurance fund pay wages and redundancy payments when its quite obvious that there was funding/finance available, hence the £150k?

It just seems totally wrong that they should be able to do something like this and get away with it

Any advice, comments or suggestions would be most useful


Thank you Gster