Former workers of Vita Cortex that started a sit-in to receive promised additional redundancy payments have accepted the company’s offer. While the payments are less than demanded, the former employees unanimously accepted the new deal, which represents a significant improvement to their current situation. The deal comes after the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) announced last month (see April newsletter) it was willing to make free assets for Vita Cortex’s agreed supplementary redundancy payments of 0.9 weeks per worked year (on top of the statutory two weeks). As a part of the agreement, the 161-day sit-in at Vita Clean ended at the moment that Vita Cortex processed the payments.
English: http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2012/featurednews ...
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/end-of-vita-cortex-sit-in-expected ...
This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. All rights reserved. The ETUI is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter, please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2012. To unsubscribe, please contact Mariya Nikolova.