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01/09/2009
Car Hire Jobs Lost
Jobs in a normally lucrative sector have been lost.
Almost 20 people are being made redundant after the NI part of a national car hire company went under.
Pembroke Services, part of the Irish Murray Group of companies, went into liquidation last week with debts of around £1.3m.
Debts include £1.25m to ordinary creditors, around £50,000 owed to the bank and £15,000 owed to employees in back pay and holiday pay.
The Murray Group is run by Harold Thomas Murray and Harold John Murray, a father and son from Co Dublin.
The company lost a franchise with Europcar rental earlier in 2009 which is though to have been the 'final straw' leading to a creditors meeting being held.
The wind-up is being handled in Belfast by the specialist accountancy frim Grant Thornton and already staff based at George Best Belfast City Airport are unhappy.
One ex-worker said that employees were told on July 6 that jobs were being lost but did not hear from administrators until August 7.
"We were given no pay, holiday pay, pay in lieu or redundancy, or P45s," he told the Belfast Telegraph.
An interim examiner from Grant Thornton in Dublin has been appointed to run the car rental operations of the Murray group in the Irish Republic.
According to a statement of affairs given to the court, Murray's Rent-A-Car owes creditors €12.6m, Murray Leasing €4.1m, and Murray Chauffeur Drive, €1.9m, but it is hoped that a court's protection will allow the companies to "trade their way out of difficulty".
In the Republic the company has been restructuring, cutting about 40 jobs.
(BMcC/GK)
Almost 20 people are being made redundant after the NI part of a national car hire company went under.
Pembroke Services, part of the Irish Murray Group of companies, went into liquidation last week with debts of around £1.3m.
Debts include £1.25m to ordinary creditors, around £50,000 owed to the bank and £15,000 owed to employees in back pay and holiday pay.
The Murray Group is run by Harold Thomas Murray and Harold John Murray, a father and son from Co Dublin.
The company lost a franchise with Europcar rental earlier in 2009 which is though to have been the 'final straw' leading to a creditors meeting being held.
The wind-up is being handled in Belfast by the specialist accountancy frim Grant Thornton and already staff based at George Best Belfast City Airport are unhappy.
One ex-worker said that employees were told on July 6 that jobs were being lost but did not hear from administrators until August 7.
"We were given no pay, holiday pay, pay in lieu or redundancy, or P45s," he told the Belfast Telegraph.
An interim examiner from Grant Thornton in Dublin has been appointed to run the car rental operations of the Murray group in the Irish Republic.
According to a statement of affairs given to the court, Murray's Rent-A-Car owes creditors €12.6m, Murray Leasing €4.1m, and Murray Chauffeur Drive, €1.9m, but it is hoped that a court's protection will allow the companies to "trade their way out of difficulty".
In the Republic the company has been restructuring, cutting about 40 jobs.
(BMcC/GK)
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