A former Thomas Cook flight attendant says she has been made homeless after the firm collapsed this week.
Jo Marriott claims her "unsympathetic" landlord has booted out her home and she must now wait for sheltered accommodation.
The woman, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, was abroad with work when she was made aware Thomas Cook had gone bust.
"I am now homeless. My landlord is now demanding I leave the property so I'm having to wait to see if the local council can put me in sheltered accommodation," Jo told BBC News today.
"He's [the landlord] not been sympathetic or compassionate or anything. He just wants me out."
Jo is one of around 1,000 former employees whom intend to take legal action.
They met in Manchester today at a Unite event to argue the company acted unlawfully by not offering a Protective Award, a form of compensation given to staff of larger companies who are made redundant without being properly informed or consulted with.
Aneil Balgobin, a specialist employment law Partner at Simpson Millar, said: “This has been a very upsetting and distressing time for the former Thomas Cook employees, many of whom were made redundant with a moment’s notice and who now face financial uncertainty whilst searching for a new role."
But just because a company has ceased to exist, it doesn't mean your rights disappear with it. And there are quite a few rights associated with redundancy.
“Many people mistakenly believe that if a business goes bust, that’s it! The staff are simply hung out to dry with no means of recovering what is rightfully theirs, but that isn’t the case," Balgobin said.
But UK travel association ABTA has warned holidaymakers to check the paperwork before they start to rebook another holiday or they may risk ending up with two valid holiday bookings, and may end up having to pay cancellation charges.
They have also advised Brits to contact the operator directly to find out if their holiday is going ahead and the next steps to take (some operators won't have your contact details so it's best to get in touch yourself).
For example, in the case of cruise holidays, a number of cruise lines have already said they will honour Thomas Cook bookings .
