Truck Driver and Traffic Fines: What Now?

Questioner

Dear, My friend is a truck driver, and has worked for a company through an employment agency for the past year that has been declared bankrupt since last week. The traffic fines that drivers receive are for their own account, and were normally forwarded directly to the employment agency, and then deducted from their salary that same week. Now, a few days before the bankruptcy, we were called by the employment agency that the company had forgotten to forward 4 fines from last year (2013), and that these still had to be paid. We then agreed with them that these fines would be deducted one by one from their salary over the coming weeks. That week, 1 fine was deducted from their salary, the 2nd would then be deducted from the next payment of their salary. But in the meantime, the company has been declared bankrupt. My question now is: does my friend still have to pay back these fines, since the company has ceased to exist? We have not heard anything more, not from the company, and not from the employment agency either. Awaiting your response, I remain. Yours sincerely.

Lawyer

Formally, your friend still has to pay back the fines. The curator will have to indicate this. Sometimes curators forget these kinds of things, so I would not ask for them myself. However, you should take into account that it can sometimes take several months before the curator requests payment.