The operation, formerly Prospect Mailing Services, is not part of the administration process for Global MP being handled by Baker Tilly.
Workers are still waiting for owner Kevin Dunstall to put the firm into administration or liquidation so they can claim their missing wages and redundancy from the state.
PrintWeek has been informed that more than 60 people are affected – 35 employees at Global MP Mailing, plus a further 28 staff who were still owed money from Prospect.
Alternatively, to take matters into their own hands the workers need to raise £6,000 to be able to appoint a solicitor to put the business into liquidation on their behalf.
Global MP went into administration on 1 July.
Len Thirkill, who was shift manager at Global MP Mailing and prior to that production manager at Prospect, said the employees were becoming increasingly desperate: “We haven’t been paid, and we have no information on when we will get our redundancy pay. We need help,” he said.
“We were promised that we would be paid on the 26th, then we were going to be paid on the 2nd. Still nothing,” Thirkill added.
Employees fear the situation could drag on until 1 September, when HMRC is set to revisit a winding-up petition that was adjourned in May.
Dunstall did not respond to PrintWeek’s requests for comment.
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