Tag: furlough
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No justification for lay-offs at Linamar given prospect of UK government support
Urgent need for confirmation of financial support package for JLR supply-chain companies Unite has challenged management at Linamar, Dunmurry on their proposals to lay-off 40 temporary, agency workers. The site is a supplier to Jaguar-Land Rover (JLR) and the lay-offs are a response to the protracted cyberattack-related shutdown of production at JLR plants across the…
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New approach to industrial relations by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council shows how Unite is delivering for workers
Five years after council formation, management moves to resolve long-standing pay inequality dispute by extending pay uplift to disadvantaged workers Unite welcomes moves to furlough workforce on 100 percent pay and to provide workers a special Covid-19 recognition payment to those who continued working on frontlines during lockdown Reviewing the successes of the previous year…
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Queens University workers hold socially-distanced protests as campaign for wage justice intensifies
Unite reiterates that contrary to QUB excuses, its legal advice confirms their members working in the Students Union are eligible for furlough payments On a day when a number of socially-distanced protests in support of Students’ union workers were held at various locations around Queens campus, Unite Hospitality organiser, Neil Moore, said: “There is clearly…
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Queens University must avail of eleventh hour opportunity to furlough students union workers to avoid escalating campaign for wage justice
HMRC officials stand ready to receive application from Queens to furlough and backdate payments for student union workers ahead of midnight deadline Unite legal department letter highlights that HMRC guidelines have been changed to remove any impediment to use of furlough in cases like this Unite Hospitality organiser, Neil Moore, said: “Zero-hours, and casual contract,…
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Disgraceful Queens University decision leaves zero-hours workers facing impoverishment
Official University response to collective grievance offers no hope to workers, 45 percent of whom have had to lost their accommodation due to financial hardship Unite Hospitality organiser, Neil Moore, blasted the response of Queens University to a collective grievance raised by zero hours employees at student union facilities which have had to close temporarily…
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Belfast City Council must intervene to ensure livelihoods of 140 casual workers employed by council-owned company at Waterfront & Ulster Hall
Councillors cannot wash their hands of this decision – they must intervene to secure jobs of Waterfront and Ulster Hall workers Decision to lay off 140 workers made when employers had to contribute 33 percent of wages – it must be reconsidered now this has been reduced to five percent Kieran Ellison, Unite Regional Officer…