Call centre fat cat back in business as taxpayer pays £350k bill for staff

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SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Staff at a Glasgow call centre have been paid £350k in redundancy from the taxpayer while owner David Harper starts a new business.

A call centre boss who left the taxpayer to pick up a £350,000 staff bill when one of his companies went bust is back in business.

David Harper has taken over energy mis-selling claims firm Panoserv, which boasts of helping businesses claw back £10million in overpayments.But Harper, 43, was the owner of Glasgow-based Go-Centric, which shut before Christmas 2022, leaving staff high and dry. Go-Centric was handed £10million by the Scottish Government for its Test and Protect contract during the pandemic and £1.4million from the UK Government to run its Warm Homes Discount scheme.Go-Centric staff have started getting Redundancy Service payouts of around £2000 each.

Top news stories today Paul Kissen of Thompsons solicitors, who represented about 140 of them, said: “We’ve managed to win approximately £350,000. What they’ve all won is a protective award, which is something people can get when a company makes a large number of people redundant and it doesn’t carry out a proper consultation process before doing so.” Don't miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond. Sign up to our daily newsletter.

 

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