O’Grady employees transferred as company enters administration
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By Chris Tindall STAFF AT Welsh haulage irm WM O’Grady Haulage and Plant Hire have been transferred to another company owned by the MD after the business went into administration.
Joint administrators from KPMG were appointed on 10 August and all 33 staff were transferred under TUPE to Gwynedd Skip Hire, which trades out of the same address as WM O’Grady on the Cibyn industrial estate in Caernarvon.
However, Companies House records reveal that Gwynedd Skip Hire has a proposal lodged against it to strike it off the register. A KPMG spokeswoman says the administrators are looking for a buyer of the business and assets of WM O’Grady.
In March WM O’Grady and Gwynedd Skip Hire boss William O’Grady was found guilty of illegally dumping construction waste in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
WM O’Grady also appeared at a public inquiry in February when its licence was curtailed to 12 vehicles.
The trafic commissioner (TC) ordered that the company’s maintenance systems, documentation and vehicle inspections be inde
pendently audited; tachographs independently analysed and a draft statement of intent be prepared explaining how the irm records drivers’ hours.
The TC also found that transport manager Raymond Rutter had lost his repute. An O-licence application made by Gwynedd Skip Hire to VOSA is still in progress.
O’Grady did not respond when contacted by CM.