@IrishTimes Hmv Ireland staff were due to get holiday & redundancy payments today have not been paid by Hilco pic.twitter.com/69bsdfZPvi
— Hmv Henry street (@HmvHenrystreet) September 9, 2016
HMV Henry Street’s Twitter this afternoon.
Hilco Capital, the parent company of HMV Ireland and Xtravision shut up shop on the former at the end of last month, and have apparently gone into liquidation the night before they were due to settle up with staff.
This is not the workers’ first rodeo with HMV.
Meanwhile…
So that’s labels, bands and now staff shafted by HMV Ireland https://t.co/1fbkbixB6Y
— Jim Carroll (@jimcarrollOTR) September 9, 2016
…and HMV Limerick staff have spoken on their treatment by Hilco to the ‘sheet.
“It was first of all hard to hear that your job was gone, but the promise of a redundancy payment from HMV made that a bit easier and would have given people a bit of breathing room financially, while looking for new employment.With that now delayed it makes this a very difficult time for the staff that put Trojan work in right to the end, as we always did, to ensure the store closures went as smoothly as possible.”
Brendan Miller
“As well as that I think it’s the fact that a conscious decision was made by HMV Ireland/Hilco to lie to its employees and promise them a timely redundancy which was never going to be paid out. That was to ensure we were not in a position to use any leverage against them to ensure we got paid.”
Damien Mullane
More as we get it.
Staff must have been shocked that their career in selling physical disks of music has ended like this.
I think they were shocked that they got shafted, not that the company shut down.
Missing the point by a mile.
Jonotti only collects vinyls, like a real music fan
SO cool. SO SO cool.
I hear he has the clear first press of In Utero, still shrinkwrapped.
My comment was obviously mocking physical media so you’ve missed the point completely. Not surprising if you’re ex staff.
It was pretty obvious from years back that these businesses had no future. A business without a future is not going to remain solvent for very long and insolvent business are not in a rarely position to pay redundancy payments.
Vinyl?pffft. I only collect on wax cylinder.
I’ve a large collection of vinyl from 2000-2004 when it was least popular.
Real collectors get their music on magnetic wire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ihiTwJPCc
lol @pede
Well I have a large collection of vinyl from 1983 to date, and I’m not a prick.
That’s the most Internet comment of the day. Congrats.
It’s about hardworking people getting what they’re owed, not the shop closing. And discs is spelled with a c.
Discs is spelled with a c but disks is spelled with a k. Do not challenge me.
Don’t challenge Jonotti! He has an international rugby cap and, if he can drag himself away from the supermodels, he’ll probably batter you.
a disk is what folk from kerry sit at in the office, obviously..
PS. They are owed statutory redundancy which they will receive from the state.
Jonotti doesn’t let facts get in the way of a snide comment.
+1
jonotti has displayed his lack of humanity and appears to be a bit of an owld male sex bit.
Mocking physical media, mocking physical people.
Interesting. The HMV Henry Street twitter account has been suspended.
Jonotti you have quite literally no idea what you’re talking about and are basing your opinions on vague notions & absolutely no research. Congrats on having bought some vinyl once though you smug twit
His trolling worked then
Shocking treatment. Same happened to some Xtravision staff. Were Hilco involved there too?
Yep.
I seem to recognize ‘Jonotti’ from other fora, under several names……. deja deja vu?
Who sat down in a HMV management meeting and pitched the great idea to f*ck the staff? Is this a business model they teach in hot-shot MBA school?
yes
The company is insolvent. Of course there is no funds to pay redundancy. No company sets out to screw over their staff, unfortunately for both parties, the workers & the directors, they were running a company that was always going to fail. This can hardly be a surprise to the workers
Thankfully they’ll receive statutory redundancy from the state.