Labour Court recommends 32-week redundancy payment floor at Schering-Plough (Brinny) Co

The Labour Court recommended a redundancy payment floor equal to 32 weeks’ pay, including statutory terms, for workers facing compulsory redundancy at Schering-Plough (Brinny) Co. The recommendation, dated 29 August 2005, concerned a dispute with the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union over redundancies, staffing levels and camera use at the Brinny plant in Innishannon, Cork. The Court did not recommend a continuing pay increase for workers’ cooperation with camera use, finding the breach arose from force majeure and was neither deliberate nor continuing. It also declined the union’s staffing claim, saying there was no evidence of the asserted area-specific agreement.