Labour Court recommends enhanced redundancy payments for three workers

The Labour Court recommended that three workers made redundant by Seirbhisi Na N-�G receive an ex-gratia payment of three weeks’ pay per year of service. The recommendation was signed on 11 April 2014. The Services Industrial Professional Technical Union sought an enhanced redundancy package, saying three weeks’ pay per year of service plus statutory redundancy was the norm in the community sector. The employer said funding cuts had forced the redundancies and that it had borrowed to cover statutory payments, leaving no funds for an additional payment. The Court recommended that the parties jointly seek funding from the relevant agencies to meet the payment, as the organisation could not afford it from its own resources.