Dyserth Falls resort
Dozens of people are said to have lost thousands in unpaid wages after the timeshare resort in which they worked made them redundant on masse.
Hundreads of Timeshare customers at Dyserth Falls in Denbighshire also fear losing out, many are worried about their promised 5 figure holiday investments.
A notice on the door of the office at Dyserth Falls says the resort has closed due to health and safety fears related to a fire on New Year’s Eve.
The fire service nor Denbighshire council, which is usually responsible for such matters, say they are involved or advised on the issue.
The company behind the resort, Dyserth Falls Limited, faces a winding up hearing on March 2 (as stated before). The inland revenues rightfully seek a winding up petition.
The company was found to ONLY owe £7,762 by a County Court Judgement in August. The money has not yet been paid.
No member of the company’s board, including executive Craig Derbyshire, has been available for comment.
A notice was put up saying the park was closed due to health and safety after this chalet caught fire on New Year’s Eve
Staff member Julie Beveridge missed seeing her four children on Christmas Day to work at the resort, as well as working on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
She also worked at a wedding at the resort on January 3 in the hope of saving for her own wedding in August but Julie was given her P45 last month, and now fears her wedding plans could be ruined if she doesn’t receive her wages.
She said: “It’s all up in the air at the moment. It’s a huge palaver.
“I had a text message from the woman who used to be the accountant for Dyserth Falls. As a gesture of goodwill, she said she’d be at the resort so we could collect our P45s.
“We’d got the letter on January 8 saying that come February our jobs will be secure, but the whole place is shut.
“The last time we got paid was December 11 in our November wage pack. I didn’t see my family throughout most of December, and I’m not getting any money for it.
“I’ve been given forms to claim it back, but I might not get anything back at all.”
Another staff member, who didn’t want to be named, claimed she was owed £3,000 in unpaid wages.
She said: “There’s a lot of people that have lost a lot of money.
“They finished us all on January 8 and told us all we could come back in February, but they’ve shut the doors and disappeared.
“We worked all over Christmas and put everything into it. You just can’t do this to people.”
One customer, who paid £9,000 to the resort in October, says he’s now uncertain about his investment. Greg Fotheringham, who lives in Devon, said he felt “left in limbo”.
Clearly the company has a judgement and took money whilst that judgement was registered at the courts. The amount is miniscule in comparison to the turnover of the company. If the debt is so small and they could not of would not satisfy the debt they will either be wound up and insolvent or they could be using this small judgement so as to liquidate larger debts. The consumers are at risk of being in the class of creditors which are unsecured. The consumers should get representation and try and take over the resort they have a major interest in.
The TCA thanks Josh Morris for his work in this matter
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