Work owes me wages

[LoveLeonardCohen]

Hello can anyone give any info, much appreciated.
To keep it short...I have been paid once this year for January. I am now owed Feb, Mar and April, to the tune of about £1500 now. Not a huge amount but I would like the money.
Anyway I have been very patient out of loyalty etc, but I went o pay in February cheuqe, £500 and it bounced last week. Boss said would pay cash this Friday, spoke to her today and she said she wasn't sure if she could pay cash. (I know she owes loads of money to everyone)

1. Firstly what on earth can I do to get this money that I am owed?

1. At the risk of sounding selfish, if the company goes under and goes bankrupt, will they be liable to pay wages that are owed? I know that I am not the only one as the other employees are owed also.

Getting concerned about the amount owed is going up and up, but hoping for a turn around. Maybe I should go down to one day per week on saturday so DP can work the rest of the days (normally we do part time so we share childcare)

Or should i just get another job.

Only thing is got 3 weeks booked off in July for wedding honeymoon etc. Potential employers probably won't be impressed with that.

Also owed holiday pay but don't see that I will get paid that.

Wages are liable if the company goes under. Tell her to pay up or its the small claims court, if she can't pay wages then she's likley to be in court for other debts soon.

I know that boss owes so much money to suppliers, tax, wages etc etc, can't see how they will gte out of it. I've had a look online and it does actually look like there is a quite good likelihood that employees do get paid if bankruptcy is filed. Apparently they are quite high on the list of creditors

Employees are "preferential" creditors. This means that they get paid before others but only from the money generated from certain types of asset. Also it is only up to a max of £800 in wages and any outstanding holiday pay and pension contributions. If the company (now or in insolvency) can't pay, then the Government will pay some of it - there will be information on Direct Gov about how much.
I would press as hard as possible for cash now. Even if it's only part!