SEVEN WOMEN WHO were made redundant by Kerry Group contractor BCD Travel are set to protest this week after redundancy payments have been withheld by the company.
The women were initially offered the statutory redundancy payment but following a Labour Court hearing the workers were awarded an additional two weeks pay per year of service. SIPTU representatives however claim that BCD Travel has refused to honour the Labour Court ruling.
As a result the workers are to hold a demonstration outside their former workplace at the Kerry Group offices in Tralee this Thursday in an attempt to get the multinational to put pressure on BCD to fulfill their commitments.
SIPTU Organiser, Karan O’Loughlin, said that Kerry have their own fair play procedures and should push for these to be extended to their contractors:
The seven women affected worked solely in the Kerry Group offices on a contract arranging corporate travel arrangements for that company. Despite this the management of Kerry Group has refused to request that its contractor respect workers rights and honour a ruling of the Labour Court.
The workers were employed at the office for between eight and fourteen years and although there had been tentative negotiations aimed at retaining a number of the postions in a ‘work form home’ capacity these came to nothing.
SIPTU says the women are “clear in their resolve to maintain these protests until they are paid what they are owed”.
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