The Labour Court has issued a series of recommendations over the redundancy deal being offered to Element Six staff.
After a second round of lengthy negotiations at the Labour Court yesterday, the industrial relations trouble-shooter last night issued a series of recommendations in a bid to resolve the bitter row between the company and its workers.
Staff are currently refusing to co-operate with a survival plan for the Shannon plant unless improved redundancy terms are offered to 200 employees who will lose their jobs under the plan.
The Labour Court is recommending that they be given four weeks of pay for every year of service on top of their statutory entitlement to two weeks per year of service.
The payments would be capped at one-and-a-half years’ salary.
Unions meet today to discuss the proposal which will then have to be put to a vote by staff.
Element Six has warned that it will close most of the Shannon plant, with the loss of 370 jobs, unless the survival plan is implemented and today is the deadline to revert to that original plan
