The collapse of an Australian tech company has just taken another twist after staff received a letter from a government agency.
Marketing and software company E-Mersion Media (Aust) Pty Ltd, headquartered in melbourne, collapsed into liquidation last month with debts of at least $13 million.
All the company’s staff had been stood down by the time the business went into liquidation, where they were finally terminated.
However, several staff who had quit before E-Mersion Media went under had been trying for nearly a year to get their final wages and entitlements paid.
They had escalated the matter to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), an independent government body specialising in workplace relations.
E-Mersion Media claimed to news.com.au in August last year that they had withheld some staff members’ pay over serious misconduct allegations, including a claim that $15,000 was spent on a company UberEats account.
The business also said police have been involved and that they would soon launch a court case against several former staff members.
But staff said they had been given no information on the alleged misconduct and the company was unable to provide a police reference number to news.com.au at the time. Now it appears it was…
