Workers ‘shocked and amazed’

WITH 232 years’ service between them, the 16 staff at the Mitchelstown 4Home operation were never going to take lightly the closure of their workplace after barely three days’ notice.

Adding insult to injury was the offer of statutory redundancy of just two weeks’ pay per year of employment to staff who had worked for the company for an average of 14.5 years each.

Father-of-four James Morrissey clocked up 28 years’ service for the company, 26 of those under the ownership of Dairygold and the remainder with Reox Holdings, the current owners of 4Home.