A letter sent by Opposition leader Chris Hipkins to BlackRock asking for assistance to ensure 160 terminated SolarZero staff are paid what they are owed has been met with silence.
Hipkins sent a letter to David Giordano, BlackRock’s managing director of climate infrastructure, on December 4, one week after news broke that NZ’s leading solar panel company was going into liquidation.
Staff at the 50-year-old firm were called into a meeting on November 26 and told their American shareholder, the giant American investment firm BlackRock, had appointed liquidators. Their jobs were terminated with immediate effect and former staff and contractors are owed millions in unused annual leave as well as redundancy payments.
Hipkins’…
