I've heard that through the grapevine, and other commenters have concurred, but I've never confirmed it.
Update: according to 11 USC Section 507, wages fall in 3rd place. I am not a lawyer so I may be reading this all wrong, but it goes "administrative expenses", "unsecured claims", then wages up to $4000 (about half of what I'm owed) and earned within 90 days of the bankruptcy filing. It's been about a year since I quit the company, and the wage claim through the labor board has a 3-year statute of limitations. I wonder what would happen if I filed a wage claim on a bankrupt company...
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"whereupon you become a creditor, lining up with all the rest of the creditors who aren't going to get paid either"
I was under the impression that employees owed wages are paid before other creditors, which means OP would have a better chance of getting something.
I've heard that through the grapevine, and other commenters have concurred, but I've never confirmed it.
Update: according to 11 USC Section 507, wages fall in 3rd place. I am not a lawyer so I may be reading this all wrong, but it goes "administrative expenses", "unsecured claims", then wages up to $4000 (about half of what I'm owed) and earned within 90 days of the bankruptcy filing. It's been about a year since I quit the company, and the wage claim through the labor board has a 3-year statute of limitations. I wonder what would happen if I filed a wage claim on a bankrupt company...
(http://www.lawdog.com/bkrcy/bkmd3.htm#726.)