To: Irish Government
Stop Liquidating Workers Rights
We want the Irish Government to introduce the following:
1. The immediate introduction of new legislation to protect the living standards of workers who loose their jobs, as a result of their employment being wound up, due to liquidation.
2. To advance workers as the most important creditors in the case of liquidations.
3. For the government to introduce a statutory body resourced to carry out Liquidation/Administration processes.
4. For workers to have a right to access the terms of a collectively negotiated redundancy agreement through a statutory fund, in the event of liquidations.
5. For the government to immediately put in place a contingency fund that ensures any collective redundancy agreement terms are met in full to workers concerned
Why is this important?
Liquidation is the formal means, which companies are wound up and any proceeds distributed to creditors and shareholders. A change in legislation in favor of this petition would put the interests of workers first in the event of their jobs being lost and the employment being wound up. Its important to workers who at their most vulnerable, need and require every financial support to be implemented by their Government and for Union members to have their collectively agreed contract entitlements safeguarded by employment and company law.