HEXHAM company Total Fabrication Services has gone into liquidation, leaving more than 60 employees owed more than $1.5 million in entitlements.
Although the employees should receive some entitlements through the federal governments Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union says the company was three months behind with its superannuation deductions, leaving the workforce almost $100,000 behind.
Assistant state secretary Cory Wright said that unless the liquidator could find money for the employees superannuation, they would lose their deductions because they were not covered by the government scheme.
Mr Wright said the company did fabrication a…
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