SIPTU attacks company over redundancy offer

A COMPANY which is due to close next week with the loss of 70 jobs was yesterday accused by SIPTU of “cynically misusing” industrial relations procedures.

Glen Dimplex, which had been engaged in conciliation talks in recent months with the union, has refused to abide by a Labour Court recommendation that the workers should receive a redundancy settlement of four weeks’ pay per year of service, in addition to the statutory entitlement of two weeks.

Instead, the company stuck to its original offer of two weeks’ pay, plus the statutory entitlement, and the workers have now reluctantly voted to accept this, according to Tralee SIPTU official Con Casey.