Labour Court sets out consistent treatment for laid-off Delphi workers

In 1995, the Labour Court could not recommend the claim as made by the Amalgamated Transport General Workers' Union and the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union for laid-off workers at Delphi Packard Electric Systems. It recommended that their re-employment, continued lay-off or redundancy be handled consistently with future workforce measures once the plant’s workload was known. The recommendation was signed on 2 May 1995. The dispute followed the loss of a contract in May 1994, which led to 190 lay-offs. By January 1995, 42 workers remained laid off and 15 had been made redundant since May 1994. The Court said the earlier commitments had been made in expectation of a contract that was lost and that it lacked specific information about future workload.