At this meeting, Delmont told all employees they were to take all their accrued holiday leave and that he was compulsorily reducing their hours. The government paid employers the $580 wage subsidy for their workers on the basis they kept them on. Within days of the meeting Delmont announced a redundancy process, but just for those two workers – not for the other 36 staff. TDB Recommends NewzEngine.comInitially, he promised them some of the wage subsidy in lieu of redundancy pay. At the time, hundreds, if not thousands, of employers got away with stealing the wage subsidy money from desperate workers.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 08, 2021 18:57 UTC