IFI workers set to take State and firm to court over payouts

IFI WORKERS are set to take the Government and ICI to the Labour Relations Court in an attempt to increase their redundancy packages.

More than 200 workers voted at the Marino Point plant in Cobh, Co Cork, last night for the move, claiming a precedent existed whereby anybody previously laid off by the company received non-statutory redundancy of 5.5 weeks pay per year of service.

Both shareholders, the Government and British-owned multi-national ICI have offered workers a maximum of 2.2 weeks pay per year of service.