IFI staff to protest over payments

IRISH Fertilizer Industry workers from three plants North and South of the Border will protest outside the Tánaiste’s Dublin office next Thursday over redundancy payments and cuts in some pension funds.

The closure of IFI, the State’s fertiliser company, with the loss of 620 jobs, will hit workers in Belfast first when they are laid off at the end of the week.

The 170 workers in Richardson’s Fertilisers in Belfast may only receive 40% of their pension entitlements because of the shortfall in the company’s pension fund, according to former Northern Industry Minister Reg Empey.