advice gratefully received - acas mediation - think company will go into liquidation

[howrudeforme]

DH has been sort of excluded from work for almost two months. They insist he verbally resigned - he didn't - he's written twice to tell them so - they ignored this, called him in for a meeting and took his work keys off him.

Only after he put in formal complaint they wrote back saying it was all a big mistake - he hadn't, after all, resigned and was still employed by the company and not sacked by them (which our letter to them insinuated) but asked that he wait for a grievance hearing date. It never came. He's not been paid for the last two and a half months.

Gone to mediation and I'm awaiting a call from the conciliator, but we hear the boss is trying to liquidate the company (something he's done lots of times since my dh worked there) before any hearing.

If he goes into liquidation does any justice for my dh end here?

Any advice- we're desperate and about to hit a financial wall.

[prh47bridge]

I'm afraid if the company goes into liquidation your chances of getting any money from them are minimal. He may be entitled to some money from the government in that situation provided they agree he was employed by the company at the time of liquidation. This includes redundancy pay, up to 6 weeks holiday pay, statutory notice pay, up to 8 weeks wages and a basic award for unfair dismissal. Note that payments are limited to £464 per week.

[howrudeforme]

Thank you for this.

It's an awful situation. We've started mediation but the owner has gone quiet. It's a restaurant and the word around the community is that he's going to go into liquidation to avoid any responsibility.

However, he's gone into liquidation many times before - the restaurant remains open under a different company (aka my husband's employment has been continuous but with a different company name on the payslip over the years)!

He's 51 and broken by this. So many rogue employers.