Labour Court recommends full Sustaining Progress payments at Kildare Chilling

The Labour Court recommended that Kildare Chilling Company pay the Sustaining Progress increases in full from their due dates, after rejecting the company's inability-to-pay case. The recommendation was dated 15 May 2006. Services Industrial Professional Technical Union had sought payment without first agreeing to cost-offsetting measures. The company said the increase would cost €450,000 and proposed measures it said could save €55,000. The Court noted that the company had not supplied audited accounts to support its inability-to-pay claim. It recommended negotiations on changes sought by the employer after the increases were paid.