Around 130 workers at City Link in Hampshire will find out their job fate today

Drivers, staff and contractors who work for City Link's Fareham base have been told to turn up today to learn their fate - days after the company went into administration on Christmas Eve.

As reported by the Daily Echo, workers learnt the devastating news after an announcement around 5pm on Christmas Day.

Many found out when the news spread on social media.

Nearly 80 people are employed at the Fareham site, which only opened last year after a half a million pound investment.

However one employee who is subcontracted to the company believes he is one of more than 60 drivers who also stand to lose their jobs - bringing the total to almost 140.

Today residents across the county who were expecting parcels via City Link have been told to visit the depot where they can collect their items after all deliveries were suspended over the holiday.

Employed through a sub-contractor, Daniel Stamp is one of three brothers - James, Cameron and Johnny - who he says have lost their jobs.

The 25-year-old said: “My boss texted me on Boxing Day saying there was a meeting at 2pm. He said it was about the future.

“There are four of us so I asked if we could come in one car to save going in four vans but he told me to come in the four vans so that they could be handed over.

“He said to me 'It's not good news, it looks like we've reached the end of the road.'”

Daniel and his brothers expect to find out their fate this afternoon while he said others at the depot will be told this morning.

City Link called in administrators from professional services firm Ernst Young after years of “substantial losses”.

The news broke on Christmas Day and Daniel only found out about his job after a friend told him on Facebook.

Union bosses have branded the handling of the news as “disgraceful” and have demanded talks with Business Secretary Vince Cable as nearly 3,000 people nationwide face unemployment.

The Daily Echo reported on the opening the new “flagship depot” enabling the company to expand its operation in the region in October last year.

The depot was created following a £500,000 investment from the company to employ 77 staff, including two apprentices, and operate 56 collection and delivery vehicles which would handle 4,200 items a night.

But Daniel believes that of those 77 employees, only four of them are drivers with at least another 60 sub-contracted out.

The father of two said: “I'm going to struggle. I've got a family to feed and rent to pay.”