Redundancy deal will not change ‘under any circumstances’

GREENCORE Irish Sugar yesterday declined an invitation to attend the Labour Court and firmly warned the redundancy package offered to former workers would “not be changed under any circumstances”.

The Labour Court had invited both the company and the unions representing the workers to attend a sitting to give further clarification of its ruling on how much redundancy the workers are entitled to.

The court has already had one full hearing on the situation and offered two written clarifications, but as both sides took different views on that ruling it decided to call both together to give a full explanation.