The Labour Relations Commission is to oversee more talks today aimed at resolving a dispute at Ireland's largest electricity generation station.

STRIKE action at Moneypoint power station was averted at the last minute last night as Polish workers who had been sacked and told to return home were taken on by the project’s main contractor.

The Government is preparing a radical overhaul of employment law, which will involve transforming the labour inspectorate into a standalone body with robust new powers to tackle workplace infringements.

A Polish-owned company involved in the refurbishment of the Moneypoint power plant in Co Clare has denied union claims that it is exploiting its workers.

UP to 70 Polish workers employed at the ESB power station at Moneypoint are owed an estimated €600,000 in wages after a probe found they were being paid less than a third of the agreed hourly rate.