Workers wind up company to get paid

The Australian
Monday, 10 May, 2010
Page 3
Erwin Hannan

Summary
This article is about how the union of timber workers had successfully liquidated their former company in order to secure entitlements for employees. Employees of Harwood Resources in the southern NSW town of Tumut were sacked in April 2009 after the company effectively ran out of money to pay the workers. Their union took legal action against their company that lefts workers without entitlements.

As a result, the Federal Court decided to grant the union application to place the company in liquidation. It means the employees will have access to payments from the federal government's general entitlements scheme. As we have seen, because of this success the trade unionism has shown a good advertisement in the public.

My personal reflection
It seems to me that the legal strategy could be used if essential against companies that left their employees without entitlements. In addition, this union has shown a great benefit of being union's member where many members secured strong result.