The Labour Court accepted Irish Distillers Limited’s grounds for eliminating five forklift-driver positions at its Fox and Geese site in West Dublin. It recommended that redeployment and voluntary redundancy options be considered and exhausted before compulsory redundancies. The recommendation was signed on 14 November 2008. The Services Industrial Professional Technical Union opposed the cuts, saying the workers wanted to keep their jobs and forklift duties remained at the site. Irish Distillers said automation was needed for efficiency and monitoring showed the operation could function with two drivers. The Court recommended immediate discussions about redeployment across the company or voluntary redundancy, with those options exhausted before compulsory redundancies were implemented.
Labour Court backs elimination of five Irish Distillers forklift jobs
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