Sorry Richterscale, it was meant as a sarcastic comment - not easy to do on emails etc. I shuld've used one of these eh?
Anyways I agree with you, it is outrageous that a company could even consider witholding salary from the hard working employees at any time let alone at Christmas. But then they do seem to have previous form in this area do'nt they?
Everyone has a mortgage and bills to pay and at this rate they are not gonna have any peeps left by the end of Jan so how are they ever gonna get airbourne again?