"A failed multimillion-dollar trucking company - and the workers left without wages"

…group of five drivers from UV Carriers who all say they paid illegal job premiums of up to $50,000 to secure work - a claim the company’s directors all deny…

…claim they are owed between $13,000 and $35,000 each in unpaid wages...

The trucking company has gone into liquidation owing the IRD around $1.3m...

The unhappy drivers, all of them migrants from the Indian state of Punjab...

They claimed that while they were initially paid fairly, they were later regularly under-paid for the hours they worked, and then from October 20 last year, not paid at all.

They mostly worked until the end of the year before walking away from their jobs - but kept asking to be paid.

They said they were promised full settlements on May 29 - instead, that was the day the company was liquidated. They received letters last week from the liquidator officially terminating their employment...

... Former UV Carriers director and shareholder Amardeep Singh Sandhar told Stuff he was actually a victim in the company’s collapse. ...

“Yes, definitely UV Carriers owe them money, they have their logbooks, we have nothing to hide,” [co. director, Puneet Pal Kapoor] said...