Labour Court sets July 1988 cutoff for Irish Cement redundancy savings scheme

The Labour Court recommended that Irish Cement Limited include redundancies up to and including July 1988 in its savings-sharing arrangement, known as the POT, and make no further additions after that date. The recommendation was signed on 9 January 1989. The Group Of Unions argued that the arrangement should continue to cover further redundancies under a later survival plan. Irish Cement said the 1984 arrangement had ended and the later plan was a different package. The Court noted the parties had no specific written agreement on how long the POT would last.