Vita staff are not entitled to get ‘top up’

Vita Cortex workers are not entitled to get any kind of “top-up” from the company which employed them on statutory redundancy paid by the Government, the Department of Social Protection has said.

However Siptu, which represents the workers, says there is nothing to stop the company’s owners, including Jack Ronan, from paying ex gratia payments to the workers out of their own pockets.

The revelation is likely come as a serious blow to the morale of the 32 workers who have been occupying the plant since before Christmas.