Senior disability support worker Nathan Secomb knew something was wrong long before the email arrived in his inbox in June, alerting his team that the NDIS company they worked for was entering voluntary administration.
Having already witnessed the NDIS provider he worked for take over a previous company in financial trouble, the warning signs were familiar.
The most crucial was the missing superannuation.
“From November up until we went broke [in June], we received no super,” Mr Secomb told 7.30.
“That’s always a warning sign.”
The shock of the collapse of United Employment, a labour-hire company employing around 480 staff in New South Wales, was immediately overshadowed by management’s offer for workers to move to a new company within the…