BICESTER MP Tony Baldry is taking on a fight for staff who are still owed wages after a firm folded.

Several former staff of disability equipment firm Chiltern Invadex, in Churchill Road, went to the North Oxfordshire MP for help when they were made redundant a fortnight ago.

Administrators told the staff there was confusion over who they actually worked for and enquiries to the tax office failed to resolve the problem.

Mr Baldry fears staff will now have difficulties claiming benefits, back pay for wages owed and redundancy pay.

He has called a meeting for all former and current Chiltern Invadex staff on Thursday, April 30, at the Littlebury Hotel, Kings End, at 4pm.

He said: “All these people are in a state of shock. They have been put in an intolerable position and the fact that I’m having to write to the liquidator, BERR, the Inland Revenue, Thames Valley Police and half a dozen organisations, gives an indication of the mess of all of this.”

Some staff said they were owed up to two months’ wages when the firm went into liquidation.

Problems arose after it emerged Chiltern Invadex may not have been their technical employer, but they may have been employed by a London firm.

Mr Baldry said: “Employees came to see me at my constituency surgery on Saturday and produced their contracts of employment which show clearly they were employed by Chiltern Invadex and they also produced wage slips which say Chiltern Invadex.”

About half the workforce got their jobs back last week after the firm’s assets were bought by Liverpool-based businessman Mark Benyon.