Soldato
Hi Guys, I am in a bit of a crisis here regarding my previous company I use to work for, for 3 years.
Here is a bit of a background story before I dive into the real issue. When I joined the company, my task was to continue to develop multiple games and apps for mobile for a big client but before I did that I had to work on this “in-house” project first. About a year later I am still working on the same project as new requirements changed and after over a year, I found out how our soul owner of the company ended our relationship with that large client we was developing applications and games for, before I joined.
From this point on, we was now relying on the owner for money coming into the account as far as we was aware and after I was there for 2 years, most of us knew bad things was on the horizon so we started looking for a new role.
So anyways, fast forward to last summer august and our owner dropped a bombshell on us a day before pay day. That bomb shell was that he all of a sudden decided he was not going to pay our salary anymore until the project we was working on was finished(4th or 5th iteration of the product at this point) So we had 2-3weeks to finish it off.
Now, before that news happened, the owner actually opened up a new company from within us, doing a different project(A project that was resurrected from a previous project done before I started.) This other company, who work in same building as us wasn't effected by the owners decision to cut pay and at that time I was lucky enough to be temporarily assigned to work there fixing bugs so I got paid fine.
Fast forward a bit to around october and we get news that our pay will be delayed due to security clearance issues transferring the money from our bosses account oversees.
We managed to get paid a week or two later and got paid fine nov and dec But come the turn of this year, things started to go heavily wrong.
First we get news january pay will be delayed for a week. Then later on during febuary get news that they cant give us a date when we will get paid due to waiting on the previous cilent we was dealing with to pay us the money they owe us from the previous stuff we worked on for them.
I then managed to find a new job 3 weeks ago and handed in my notice(They allowed me to leave a day after). But after a day of handing in my notice, the company then began to make people redundant!
They gave me a written letter signed by them stating my last day of work there and also stating how by febuary 28th I will get paid everything they owe me up till this day in full plus my p45 and payslip sent to me by mail.
So anyways after making those people made redundant. The company finally got some cash from our previous client but not enough to pay everyone fully. This is when It gets interesting. The company paid 70% of jan salary to everyone except me! And then a further 20% on people who did not become redundant, whilst the other company that was formed last year summer, got paid fully for jan and feb!
I been on the phone trying to understand why they did not pay me a single penny and managed to finally get hold of HR guys there and what they said is that the company is now going into administration and that the administrator will contact me in regards of my salary!
I am truelly gutted about this. Started my new job a week ago, its been great here so far but this issue I am having with my previous company is detracting me. Also making my wife worried too.
I really need some advice guys on what I can do to tackle this awful situation im in and any any advice is welcome.
Thanks for reading this. Any specific questions you need to ask me, fire away.
Here is a bit of a background story before I dive into the real issue. When I joined the company, my task was to continue to develop multiple games and apps for mobile for a big client but before I did that I had to work on this “in-house” project first. About a year later I am still working on the same project as new requirements changed and after over a year, I found out how our soul owner of the company ended our relationship with that large client we was developing applications and games for, before I joined.
From this point on, we was now relying on the owner for money coming into the account as far as we was aware and after I was there for 2 years, most of us knew bad things was on the horizon so we started looking for a new role.
So anyways, fast forward to last summer august and our owner dropped a bombshell on us a day before pay day. That bomb shell was that he all of a sudden decided he was not going to pay our salary anymore until the project we was working on was finished(4th or 5th iteration of the product at this point) So we had 2-3weeks to finish it off.
Now, before that news happened, the owner actually opened up a new company from within us, doing a different project(A project that was resurrected from a previous project done before I started.) This other company, who work in same building as us wasn't effected by the owners decision to cut pay and at that time I was lucky enough to be temporarily assigned to work there fixing bugs so I got paid fine.
Fast forward a bit to around october and we get news that our pay will be delayed due to security clearance issues transferring the money from our bosses account oversees.
We managed to get paid a week or two later and got paid fine nov and dec But come the turn of this year, things started to go heavily wrong.
First we get news january pay will be delayed for a week. Then later on during febuary get news that they cant give us a date when we will get paid due to waiting on the previous cilent we was dealing with to pay us the money they owe us from the previous stuff we worked on for them.
I then managed to find a new job 3 weeks ago and handed in my notice(They allowed me to leave a day after). But after a day of handing in my notice, the company then began to make people redundant!
They gave me a written letter signed by them stating my last day of work there and also stating how by febuary 28th I will get paid everything they owe me up till this day in full plus my p45 and payslip sent to me by mail.
So anyways after making those people made redundant. The company finally got some cash from our previous client but not enough to pay everyone fully. This is when It gets interesting. The company paid 70% of jan salary to everyone except me! And then a further 20% on people who did not become redundant, whilst the other company that was formed last year summer, got paid fully for jan and feb!
I been on the phone trying to understand why they did not pay me a single penny and managed to finally get hold of HR guys there and what they said is that the company is now going into administration and that the administrator will contact me in regards of my salary!
I am truelly gutted about this. Started my new job a week ago, its been great here so far but this issue I am having with my previous company is detracting me. Also making my wife worried too.
I really need some advice guys on what I can do to tackle this awful situation im in and any any advice is welcome.
Thanks for reading this. Any specific questions you need to ask me, fire away.
