Former CLPM Dot Com staff win wages battle one year on

Ten former employees of CLPM Dot Com, formerly Alliance PM, have received their unpaid wages, owed to them after the company went into administration.

Money paid to the claimants includes owed redundancy, unpaid wages and holiday pay.

The staff previously worked for Carter Litho before it was bought out of administration by Alliance PM in October 2006.

Alliance PM, which subsequently changed its name to CLPM Dot Com, went into administration on 21 May last year.

The employees have had to endure several court hearings to get their money back because the Secretary of State had believed that there had been a transfer of business from CLPM Dot Com to Carter's Management or B1 Colour.

However, on 20 June this year, Judge Robin Lewis dismissed these claims at Reading Employment Tribunal.

Had the Secretary of State proved this was the case, the employees would have been forced to claim the money from the new company.

One former employee told PrintWeek he was "glad to have finally got to the end of this situation".