Clerys staff and supporters to stage mass rally in Dublin

Union representatives of the 460 workers in the Clerys department store who lost their jobs last Friday in what is being described as a “well rehearsed operation”, will this morning finally get to question what is to happen to their members now.

At 10am, the union representatives are due to meet KPMG, the court-appointed liquidators of the company. Among the information they will seek will be details of how their members are to secure any outstanding monies including owed wages and redundancy payments. They will also reiterate their members should be given priority as creditors in the liquidation.

David Fitzsimons, chief executive of Retail Excellence Ireland said his organisation understands the circa 50 store concessions operating in Clerys are owed approximately six weeks of takings that should have been held “in trust” and paid to them yesterday morning “This money, was earned by store concessions operating within Clerys over the past six weeks,” he said. “It does not belong to either Clerys or its buyers.”