Pay dispute at Napier apartment development leads to application to put construction company in liquidation

Labour-hire company Workforce Solutions claims 500 hours of invoiced work has gone unpaid from April for five of its hired workers (totalling about $28,000).

Workforce Solutions and its parent company MCNZ Group have made an application in the High Court at Napier to put Herbert Construction Ltd into liquidation. That application is set to be heard in court on September 5.

Another contractor, who did not want to be named, said his crew had only been paid for two weeks’ work, despite working on site for the past six weeks.

He was hopeful he would be paid but stopped work on Friday until Herbert paid him.

Hawke’s Bay Today called Herbert twice about the situation. He responded by text message.