Councillors petition parent firm over workers’ redundancies

A PETITION signed by Cork County Council members is to accompany a letter requesting the Government to seek proper entitlements for 154 catering workers who lost their jobs in December.

Standing orders were suspended at a county council meeting yesterday as a number of public representatives expressed their disgust at the way Swissco workers were treated by the company’s owners.

Cllr John Gilroy (Lab) said the workers, based in Little Island, had received no statutory redundancy from the company which he claimed was directly owned by the Singapore government.