The company that employed me is in administration but all we have heard from them was "close the doors". I will have to contact Companies house to find out who the administrators are I assume. This week, we were working on behalf of the company that owns the business (my employer staffed and managed the site for them) at their request - on the understanding that we would be paid this week. Unfortunately, we have had no further contact from them and haven't been paid. I feel I can no longer ask my team to work on in the hope that they may get paid at some point - when we've had no direct contact and no contract.

Hi The company I work for went into administration last week. They ran their own sites and managed some on behalf of another company. The following day we were contacted by one of my (now ex) bosses who said that the company that owned the business at my site wanted to keep it running and would we continue to work. I, and the manager of a second site, agreed on condition that 1) we were paid weekly, and 2) money owed from last month was paid promptly this week (optimistic I know). Since then we have continued to work, but payment has not been made as agreed. We have had no contact with the owners (apart from a couple of calls from the ex boss who was trying to help us keep going to save jobs), no contact with the owners of the company we did work for and we have been left to deal with suppliers etc. The business owners are (I believe) solvent but are based overseas, having no office/support staff in this country. I suspect that the second site has now closed due to not being paid, and I think I will have to tell my staff to finish now as well. Has this last week been a complete waste of our time, given that we have no contract with this company and have not even spoken to anyone from the company?

hi everyone, love the work you're doing here. reading these posts has inspired me to dig out my account statements with citi. so i have a quick question... on one of the letters they sent me several months ago i noticed they referred to their late/missed payment charges as 'service' fees. does it matter what they call these punitive charges?