Four Co Waterford convenience store workers are to receive more than €40,000 after being denied their correct notice and redundancy payments when their workplaces shut down just ten days before Christmas last year.
The employees, Bridget Browne, Bridget Harrington, Alexander Novakovsky and Joanna Yahyaoui have secured orders for statutory redundancy and notice pay from the Workplace Relations Commission after taking claims against sole trader Philip Kane, a former colleague of theirs who agreed to take over the stores where they worked last year.
"The transfer of undertakings never went across because the completion never legally went through. said no more was going to be furnished and it collapsed," he said. "I texted him asking: 'Where are you, I’m here since 11 o’clock?’ I got a message an hour later saying he was in Spain for a family funeral, a sudden death. Everything that goes on, they’re not meeting me anywhere along the way to get the sales done, so the transfers fell through," Mr Kane said.
"We’ve got letters I sent the letters in, saying the business was taken over by my original boss… and that I had no break in the hours I worked or the years I worked. As far as I’m concerned, I continuously worked for them for 23 years," Ms Browne said. "Somebody has to pay Mrs Browne her statutory redundancy. She’s been working for over 23 years on a particular wage with particular hours and the business is closed down," Ms Cunningham said.
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