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Wages pledge to jobs loss workers Teens 'worked nights at hauliers'
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The adminstrators called into the haulage company Reid Transport say they are confident workers will receive wages owed before Christmas. Children as young as 14 were working night shifts at beleaguered haulage firm Reid's Transport, an assembly member has claimed in Stormont.
Two hundred people lost their jobs when the Cloughmills firm went into administration last week. North Antrim MLA Daithi McKay of Sinn Fein said sacked workers on the picket line told him some employees had been working more than 70 hours a week.
Department of Employment officials are at the headquarters of administrators, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, in Belfast. Employment Minister Sir Reg Empey said he had already referred the most serious allegations to the police.
They are examining the calculations made about how much each employee is entitled to receive. Sir Reg has been meeting administrators of the firm, which collapsed last week.
If the data can be processed quickly, the workers should receive outstanding wages, statutory holiday pay and redundancy settlements from the department's Redundancy Payments Branch. Speaking earlier in the Assembly, he said he deeply regretted the timing and manner of the company's collapse.
He said that his officials were working with PricewaterhouseCoopers administrators to establish which of the workers were entitled to redundancy payments.
Christmas
The adminstrators say they are confident workers will receive wages owed before Christmas.
The Cloughmills firm went into administration on WednesdayTwo hundred people lost their jobs when the Cloughmills firm went into administration last week.
The workers had lifted their blockade at the company's gates on Friday afternoon, but it resumed because of confusion about when or if the money would be paid.The workers had lifted their blockade at the company's gates on Friday afternoon, but it resumed because of confusion about when or if the money would be paid.
Administrator Garth Calow has called for the blockade to end so that lorries can return to the yard at Cloughmills.Administrator Garth Calow has called for the blockade to end so that lorries can return to the yard at Cloughmills.
Some trucks have been abandoned at the roadside in England and not all have been accounted for.Some trucks have been abandoned at the roadside in England and not all have been accounted for.
Directors of the company, Liam and Shaun Reid, have not been seen by the workers or the administrators.Directors of the company, Liam and Shaun Reid, have not been seen by the workers or the administrators.