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Industry and Employment Correspondent
Protests are taking place to mark the first anniversary of the liquidation of the Debenhams chain in Ireland which saw the loss of around 1,000 jobs.
Over the last year, a group of former workers belonging to the Mandate trade union has been maintaining pickets outside the 11 stores.
They are seeking enhanced redundancy terms of four weeks per year of service provided for under a 2016 collective agreement with their former employer - rather than the statutory minimum of two weeks’ per year of service capped at €600 per week.
To date their campaign has secured a ring-fenced €3 million training and upskilling fund to assist the workers, but that was rejected on the basis that it failed to deliver cash payments.
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