Butcher's Block redundancies 'cold, clumsy, and lacked compassion'

Varadkar assures affected workers Government is there to help and says they will get redundancy payments

Butcher's Block staff were told there was no statutory holiday pay or redundancy to be paid, said Sinn Féin TD Thomas Gould. Picture: David Creedon

The manner in which jobs at the Butcher’s Block shops were axed was “cold, clumsy, and lacked compassion,” the Government has said.

Responding to questions from Cork TDs Mick Barry and Thomas Gould, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said the Government is there to assist the affected workers in Cork, Dungarvan, and in the Midlands.