100 Waterford Crystal workers still waiting for pensions

One hundred former Waterford Crystal workers have yet to receive money under the multimillion-euro pension settlement, which took years to finalise.

The ex-employees appealed a decision of the Government not to make payments for work on a contract basis, rather than a full-time, staff basis. They have yet to be paid under the terms of the pension settlement negotiated between the Government and Unite trade union, by which the first payments were made to 1,200 former Crystal staff last year.

“We had 28 days to appeal, if we weren’t happy,” said one of the workers, Brendan Drummey. “There’s a group of about 80 or 100 who took up the option to appeal. Some people took what was on offer. The appeal started in September and people who didn’t appeal got their money last year. The remainder of us have been kind of thrown on the scrap heap.”