Hopes fade as Roches redundancies finalised

ROCHES Stores has contacted some of the 172 staff it is making redundant in Cork to tell them their entitlements have been processed.

The decision would firmly suggest that negotiations, to try to salvage the jobs, have almost certainly failed.

According to their union, Mandate, the first workers were contacted on Wednesday evening and told that after up to almost 30 years of service to Roches at the Wilton Shopping Centre, it had their redundancy cheque available.