M&E firm said it had been felled by Carillion鈥檚 liquidation
Seven building engineering apprentices have been re-employed after losing their jobs following the collapse of Vaughan Engineering Ltd.
Members of the 黑洞社区 Engineering Services Association (BESA) in Scotland have found positions for all of the apprentices after Vaughan was forced into administration, with the firm blaming its demise of Carillion鈥檚 collapse.
Vaughan Engineering went under being owed more than 拢600,000 by Carillion and was contracted to carry out a further 拢1.1m worth of Carillion work in the first quarter of this year.
BESA chief executive David Frise described the news about the apprentices as a 鈥渓one bright spot in an otherwise tragic tale鈥�.
He said: 鈥淭he speed with which fellow BESA members have moved to rescue the careers of these apprentices has helped to raise spirits.鈥�
Ross Farrell, one of the apprentices, said: 鈥淚 heard about my redundancy on the Tuesday; and by Friday I had a new job, which shows how well both Blantyre Park Services [who employed Farrell] and BESA handled our situation.鈥�
A spokesperson for Vaughan confirmed KPMG, which as Carillion鈥檚 external auditor has been fiercely criticised by the parliamentary inquiry looking into its collapse, was appointed as the administrator last week.
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