EBS staff to strike on Tuesday over ‘bonus’

MORE than 300 EBS staff are to hold a one-day strike next Tuesday at branches across the country over the withholding of a traditional Christmas bonus.

The workers, members of the Unite trade union, are taking the action at the financial institution after it emerged that they will not receive the extra payment, which is equivalent to one month’s salary and which they say has been paid to them every year for the last 45 years.

The workers are particularly angry that the payment will be made to managerial staff as a clause in their contracts means it is part of their pensionable salary.