OVER £500,000 in compensation is owed to employees who lost their jobs when one of Jersey’s oldest construction groups collapsed last summer.
The Style Group – including Style Windows, Style Homes, Style Interiors and long-standing construction firm AC Mauger – confirmed that it had ceased trading and intended to enter winding-up procedures on 14 August 2025.
In a letter sent to staff and seen by the JEP, the company said “the challenges facing the business have made it impossible to continue”.
It continued: “In order to protect all parties’ interests we have needed to place all payments on hold, and that unfortunately includes salaries and wages.”
Staff were asked to return all company property “with immediate effect”.
Among those to lose their jobs when the group abruptly ceased trading was David Sutcliffe, who had worked for Style Windows as a commercial estimator operations director for 36 years.
He submitted a claim against his former employer for unfair dismissal, lack of notice and holiday pay, and unpaid wages in November.
The case was heard this week by the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal, which ordered that Style Windows pay Mr Sutcliffe £41,500 for unfair dismissal and damages totalling more than £20,000 for his other claims.
On the same day, the tribunal also handed down judgment in the cases of Austin Reid, William Johnston, David Buxton and Wayne Martin.
Mr Reid, who worked for Style Windows for 22 years as a commercial supervisor, was awarded a total of £61,593.
Mr Johnston worked for the company as a commercial contracts manager for just under four years and was awarded £55,305 – including compensation of £4,347 for paternity rights.
Mr Buxton, who worked for Style Windows Limited as a service engineer surveyor for 26 years, was awarded £51,092.
And Mr Martin, who worked for Style Shopfitting as a quantity surveyor for 15 years, was awarded £61,085 by the tribunal.
All of the claims were undefended by Style Group, so tribunal chair Dr Elena Moran handed down each judgment in default.
It brings the total owed to former staff members of the collapsed construction group to £545,682. Last year, accounts administrators Rosemary Hull and Judith Renouf were awarded £71,769 and £35,896 respectively, and director surveyor Stephen Romeril – who had worked for AC Mauger for over 49 years – was awarded a total of £145,141.
