Workers ‘were handed one-way tickets back to Poland’

AN unfair dismissals case in which two Polish workers said they were driven by taxis to Cork Airport and handed one-way plane tickets back to Poland was settled yesterday.

However, after the case, the country’s biggest trade union, SIPTU, said it would be examining the employment of non-national labour in Cork and Kerry, which had large numbers of such people often in non-union workplaces.

SIPTU’S Donal Tobin said a high proportion of such people were being paid less and enjoyed lesser conditions than their Irish colleagues, but were entitled to the same protection under labour laws.