Game employees start sit-in over redundancy pay

Up to 16 employees at two Game video games stores in Cork city have begun a sit-in to “fight for their rights” after their British employer refused to pay them anything beyond statutory redundancy.

Seven staff at the St Patrick Street branch and nine at the Mahon Point Shopping Centre branch were last night awaiting the outcome of a meeting between store managers and the company in Dublin.

The Cork stores were among 14 shops in Ireland and 263 in Britain which closed earlier this week after the gaming specialists went into administration.