Travel agent plans to sue Ensemble consortium over unpaid dividends: Travel Weekly

An Ensemble Journey Team member is organizing to sue Ensemble for 2019 dividends not received. Mike O’Malley, a husband or wife at Diplomat Journey Company in Chicago, is searching for a number of organizations to be part of in a lawsuit.

O’Malley stated Ensemble owes him about $2,100, but the circumstance isn’t really about the dollars.

“In the significant plan of items, that $2,100 isn’t really going to make a distinction in my lifetime,” he explained. “Now this is additional a issue of principle as opposed to a financial achieve on my component.”

O’Malley will want to file the situation in advance of Ensemble’s acquisition by Navigatr Group is comprehensive. Ensemble shareholders accredited the acquisition Tuesday, and the offer is envisioned to near by the finish of May perhaps. He is filing the lawsuit as an involuntary-personal bankruptcy petition.

Ensemble CEO David Harris declined to comment on the doable lawful motion.

3 other organizations that have remaining Ensemble would be part of O’Malley in a lawsuit. Collectively, the dollars they are owed from 2019 dividends satisfies the threshold expected to file an involuntary-bankruptcy situation. O’Malley explained he is inviting even additional businesses to be part of.

Ensemble is a member-owned cooperative, and associates commonly acquire frequent override payments. In May 2020, Harris verified in a assertion that the co-op was postponing the next 50 percent of 2019 payments to associates. The payment was paused as Ensemble waited to get pandemic reduction funding. At the time, he said, numerous associates were being supportive of the conclusion.

According to O’Malley, the payments were never ever created. In its place, he claimed he was told he would have to be a part of the “new Ensemble” the moment the Navigatr acquisition closes and shell out membership service fees for 2022 to receive 50 % of the cash he is owed, and pay back 2023 membership expenses to receive the other half. He was explained to people who left Ensemble would not receive their payments. 

He is currently in talks with an lawyer about taking on the case. If the lawyer decides not to consider the case, O’Malley claimed he is well prepared to file the lawsuit himself.