Workers left high and dry after Scotland’s biggest theme park folded are bidding to claw back cash from the taxpayer – and the firm’s administrators.M&D’s Leisure Ltd, which operated from Strathclyde Park, near Motherwell, went into administration on April 23 – two days before payday – leaving 165 employees with no income in the midst of the coronavirus emergency.
David Martyn, head of Thompsons’ Solicitors employment law division, said: “We are handling enquiries in respect of M&D’s going into administration and how we can help the workers who lost their jobs.“As well as unpaid wages and redundancy payments, it is very likely that most of the them will be entitled to a ‘protective award’ which means they should be able to recover some