Hundreds of workers sacked by text message as Advanced Traffic Management collapses in WA
Hundreds of employees are being laid off by text message as Advanced Traffic Management collapses in WA
- The traffic company went bankrupt on Tuesday
Four hundred traffic management employees found out via text message that they had lost their jobs after the company went bankrupt.
Advanced Traffic Management (ATM) is a Perth-based road works management company that was ordered into liquidation by federal court on Tuesday.
When the employees showed up for shift the next morning, they received a text message saying that all work at the company had ceased and the staff had been laid off.
Advanced Traffic Management (ATM), is a Perth-based road works management company that was ordered by federal court on Tuesday to go into liquidation, leaving 400 employees without jobs
Pictured is a counterfeit text of what ATM employees received after the company went bankrupt
Staff were seen in tears as they comforted each other on Wednesday, with workers saying they had been given no warning they would be left without jobs.
“Effective end of all shifts today, your employment with ATM will end,” the message to ATM staff read: Seven news reported.
Damon Douglas is an ATM clerk who is now unemployed.
“Everyone was fired today, without warning,” he said.
“It’s not just this garden, it’s every garden.”
The company has been around for 21 years and also has offices in Albany, Kalgoorlie and Northam.
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Affected staff have been told they will be paid, and the good news is that some workers have already been offered jobs at other companies.
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Staff were seen in tears as they comforted each other on Wednesday, with workers saying they had been given no warning they would be left without jobs.