Hundreds of employees at Red Lea Chickens are coming to grips with the possibility they will lose their jobs after the Australian chicken supplier was placed into voluntary administration.
Red Lea Chickens was on March 29 placed into voluntary administration, with the company saying on its website its financial position means there’s “no alternative” but to wind down operations.
A meeting was reportedly held by administrators at the Blacktown processing plant on Tuesday where hundreds of employees of the family-owned business – which has been operating since 1957 – learned of their fate.
The company says on its website its Blacktown plant is “state of the art” with more than 500 employees working there.
McGrathNicol partners Barry Kogan…
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