Labour Court recommends redeployment to resolve Irish Cable & Wire redundancy dispute

In 1992, the Labour Court recommended that Irish Cable & Wire Ltd. and Services Industrial Professional Technical Union resolve a proposed redundancy dispute through redeployment, with pay and service protected. The recommendation was signed on 17 August 1992. The company proposed reducing staffing, including a laboratory technician post. The union argued the work continued and opposed making a worker compulsorily redundant. The company said it needed to reduce costs after losses and had selected the laboratory worker with the least service, who had declined alternative employment. The Court noted both sides accepted that the need to reduce staff was financial rather than work-related, and said the reduction could be achieved through redeployment with pay and service protected.