Labour Court recommends redundancy terms and night-shift compensation at Galco Steel

The Labour Court recommended that workers removed from Galco Steel Limited's permanent night shift receive compensation at twice their annual loss. The recommendation, signed on 8 June 2009, also said the conciliation proposal on redundancy compensation should be accepted, with a week's pay for the ex-gratia lump sum calculated using average weekly earnings. The dispute involved 31 Operatives and included enhanced redundancy terms for compulsory redundancies and compensation after the four-day permanent night shift was cancelled. The union sought four weeks' pay per year of service for redundancy and at least two years' lost earnings for affected night-shift workers. Galco said it could not sustain a package above the terms negotiated at conciliation.