Established over 60 years in the past, the agency employs round 60 workers and final yr delivered income of round £11m, down from £15m within the prior yr.
Employees had been first instructed the enterprise was heading for administration on Monday however by Wednesday the mentioned they had been knowledgeable that the corporate can be liquidated and they’d not have jobs.
One insider mentioned: “The primary we knew was on Monday after we had a groups name with the MD who knowledgeable us the corporate was making use of to go in to administration and to hold on working as regular as nothing has modified.
“Then at present (Wednesday) all of us had one other Groups name to tell us the corporate was being liquidated and we not had a job and wouldn’t be getting paid this was very upsetting.”
He mentioned at present he had been as a result of be paid seven weeks wages, 5 weeks for final month and two weeks for this month.
Gilks is owned by the Ethikos Group, a Deeside-based acquirer of engineering companies, which purchased {the electrical} and mechanical engineering contractor in 2020.
Gilks was unavailable for remark.
