Unions defend €100k pay for 11 weeks’ work

UNIONS at An Post have defended a manager with the company who was paid about €100,000, despite working only a fifth of the year.

The man worked just 11 weeks in 2007 because semi-state companies such as An Post cannot cut staffing levels in their departments without offering alternative employment or voluntary redundancy to those affected.

The man was put into An Post’s “resource centre” in January 2007 and remained there until October 2007.