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https://www.i-q.net.au/main/consolidated-tin-employees-left-out-of-pocketEmployees seeking entitlements from Atherton Tableland miner Consolidated Tin have been urged to contact the office of the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Consolidated Tin Minesplaced its Mount Garnet and Surveyor operations in care and maintenance last month, citing public health concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s attracted criticism on social media from employees, who say they were owed at least two weeks pay and super before the announcement.
About 120 workers had been told they were stood down without pay as of the close of Tuesday, 24 March.
Chairman Ralph De Lacey has spoken since of a partial restart but the company’s Cairns office confirmed just before Easter that the operation remains in care and maintenance.
Chairman, Consolidated Tin, Ralph De Lacey
The announcement came hot on the heels of the collapse of a $53 million deal to buyAuctus-ownedoperations in the Chillagoe region.
Administrators for Auctus confirmed Consolidated Tin could not come up with the deposit.
In an email to employees dated 10 April, Mr De Lacey admitted a series of wages shortfalls started before the current pandemic yet continued to level the blame at COVID-19.
In another email on 9 April, Mr De Lacey said , ‘the company would not be able to to pay the other 52 percent of your last fortnightly salary today as promised.’
Some employees are sending messages to this publication directly saying they fear for their chances of getting their jobs back if they speak publicly.
Member for Tablelands Shane Knuth has been contacted three times and has so-far released no comment.
Meanwhile, theFair Work Ombudsmanhas confirmed employers cannot “generally stand down employees simply because if a deterioration of business conditions …”
Consolidated Tin was relisted on the ASX last October after being suspended from ‘official quotation’ more than three years earlier in June 2016.
The Ombudsman’s office invited any worker with an urgent enquiry about their workplace entitlements to contact Fair Work on 13 13 94 and select the prompt for the coronavirus hotline.
Consolidated Tin reached a 52 week high on the ASX of $0.30 and ended trade on 9 April at $0.125.
