Labour Court recommends £250 disturbance payment for some W.M.G. Ltd workers

In 1999, the Labour Court recommended disturbance payments for qualifying W.M.G. Ltd workers after the company moved from Togher to Churchfield in Cork. The recommendation followed a dispute with the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union, which represented about 66 workers. The Court recommended £250 gross for south-side workers with more than one year's service and £125 gross for those with less than a year. It said service should be calculated from the move date, 5 January 1998. The company had cited losses and difficult trading, while the union pointed to workers' cooperation with the move, including long hours over Christmas 1997.