Polish workers’ tunnel jobs ‘guaranteed’

THE consortium building Dublin’s Port Tunnel has pledged to directly employ Polish workers if the Warsaw-based company at the centre of a migrant labour scandal does not comply with Irish labour law.

Format Industrial Construction Ltd yesterday provided written guarantees that Polish workers will be paid the same rates as their Irish counterparts, after the Irish Examiner revealed that the company was paying workers half that paid to their Irish counterparts.

Despite pledging to comply with Irish labour laws, Format was yesterday accused of intimidating workers in an attempt to uncover which employees had spoken to the Irish Examiner about their work conditions.