GUERNSEY’S redundancy law meant NRG staff were an easy target, according to one employee.

She spoke as the majority of employees left the company for the final time yesterday, some of them in tears.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said Guernsey staff had lost out because their peers in the Netherlands were protected by stricter laws.

In October, news broke that the business would be moving to the Netherlands to be integrated with Ricoh International Management.

Only 12 of some 60 staff remain locally, with them set to go next month and in October and March.

‘It was announced as if Ricoh were assessing the situation here,’ said the woman, who has worked at NRG for many years. ‘If they had assessed it directly, they would have asked what Ricoh had to offer. But they moved everything to Holland. I think the whole assessment thing was false.

‘I would like to tell the deputies to sit up and look at the redundancy laws in Guernsey. It’s about time they started to support workers in Guernsey.’

She said they had nothing to fall back on, unlike the staff in the Netherlands. Although she would not disclose her redundancy package, she said it was better than those in the UK.

There is no legislation in Guernsey providing any right to a statutory redundancy payment.

Employers are free to make a non-contractual payment or one in recognition of a service provided.

A spokesman for the employment relations section at Commerce and Employment said the department would be reviewing the legislation.