Leo Varadkar: Debenhams workers treated "very badly by their employer"

Former workers on picket line duty outside the Debenhams Store on Patrick Street, Cork, where a number of their colleagues are staging a sit-in. Picture: Dan Linehan

The Debenhams workers will get statutory redundancy, their unpaid wages and their unpaid annual leave, but that is all, the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar has said.

To do more than that would be beyond the law, he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.