Cork engineering firm agrees wages schedule for employees

ONE of the country’s biggest earth-moving firms has agreed a schedule of wage payments to staff — some of whom haven’t been paid for up to three weeks — following the appointment of an interim examiner.

Cork-based Howley Civil Engineering Ltd, which employs up to 430 people, also guaranteed wage payments for the next 10 weeks and indicated it was hoping to trade out of its current difficulties.

The news emerged last night following the High Court approval of the appointment of Declan McHenry as interim examiner to Howley on Wednesday.