Clery’s layoffs ‘link to’ financier Deirdre Foley

The owner of financier D2 Private Deirdre Foley was “directly involved in” the events, which immediately preceded the collective redundancies of 467 workers at Clery’s department store, inspectors investigating those redundancies have told the High Court.

The legal and factual position of workers employed at Clerys is “inextricably linked” to events and transactions involving D2 Private Ltd and Ms Foley, its director and owner, the inspectors said in court documents.

The inspectors, appointed by the Workplace Relations Commission, are opposing a challenge brought by D2 and Ms Foley against the Workplace Relations Commission concerning the powers of the inspectors, who seized documents and a computer from D2’s offices in May.