Following the success of the Vita Cortex workers’ occupation, employees of businesses in financial trouble may look to sit-ins as a way of securing their entitlements. Here’s a handy guide drawn up by Hayes Solicitors. Worth noting that Employees are ‘Preferred Creditors’ in Ireland but ranked behind ‘Revenue, Liquidator and holders of fixed charges [usually banks]’. In the UK the Crown (the equivalent of Revenue) was removed as a … Read More
#staffRights: Pay The Bentley Staff
A Galway late venue has closed without paying staff in what seems to be becoming standard practice in the hospitality industry. The Bentley, a late venue in the heart of Galway city was reopened following it’s closure in 2012 (then known as Cuba) by Mayo brothers Shane & and James Broderick. Shane is a doctor in UHG (Galway Regional) while James is a pharmacist in the city. They told … Read More
Irish Slavery
Your reporter was out for an Indian last evening with a few boyos of this parish. UPDATE: Mohammed Younis & MRCI have been awarded SOLIDAR Silver Rose 2013, the first Irish based award winners. As we munched our way through bhajis and vindaloos and sank our icy cobras we couldn’t fail to notice the extended family at the next table celebrating a birthday with bags from Brown Thomas and iPhones and … Read More