Should I take the new job?
My boss pulled me in to the office on Wednesday to tell me the business going into insolvency at the end of the month. They have admitted to being in 10s of thousands of pounds in debt with the business.
I asked my boss for written confirmation that I'll be paid at the end of the month to which the answer was a bit wishy washy. Basically along the lines of wanting to pay us and continuing business as normal as the sales are important to make enough money to make sure everyone is paid. As well as talk of getting the money through the government "if the worst happens".
I had a place called me on the same day to ask if I could work Thursday. I called my boss and he asked if I could leave it and see if they'd wait out for me. I did so and the new job said Tuesday next week would be the cut off. I'm going to ring them on Monday to ask if the job is still available. If they tell me it is, should I just go for it?
I am contracted to give a month's notice at my job, but it's going into insolvency in less than I month.
I am the manager/team leader there and there is now only me, one other warehouse guy and a woman in the office. If I left suddenly, there's hundreds of customer orders lying around that won't be able to be sent out as I'm the only one with the skillset to make sure they gets done. My bosses pushed a massive 50% discount to get as many orders in before closer to make money. But I don't even have a guarantee that I'll see any of that.
Plus, my contract that I signed is still a warehouse assistant contract from 3 years ago. I never got an updated contract. Just a small wage increase.
I feel as though I must take this job in order to provide for my wife and 1 year old baby girl, but I don't want to get into any legal trouble.
Thank you in advance.