non paid salaries

Good day people would like to inform you about a little situation i use to work for amazul engineering here in newcastle the owner is hugo barnard he hasnt paid us our last salaries we were told he hasnt got money to pay us so we were laid off everytime we ask about our salaries he has excuses sent him a msg and i was told labour department must sort it out with him what can i do?its been going on for 2 months now