Publicity jeopardising jobs, says Vita

VITA Cortex has warned the jobs of its 60 remaining staff are being put at risk by the “negative publicity” from the ongoing sit-in by its former workers in Cork.

In a statement issued last night, the company said media reports of the sit-in were undermining management’s efforts to “maintain the existing levels of business and the employment needed to service it. which is heading to further potential job losses in the very near future”.

“We restructured the group, resulting in the closure of the loss making division at Vita Cortex Cork, in order to save the group as a going concern and protect the 60-plus jobs which remain,” it said.