Criminal case starts on Clerys job losses

Criminal proceedings have commenced over the handling of collective redundancies at Clerys department store.

Businesswoman Deirdre Foley faces a single charge of impeding a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) inspector as well as three counts of breaking protection of employment laws.

Two other executives, as well as the previous owners, OCS Operations Ltd (now in liquidation) and Natrium Ltd, which took over the department store in 2015, have been served summonses with connected charges.