MANDATE TRADE UNION SAYS DISCUSSIONS ONGOING WITH KPMG OVER OUTSTANDING PAY AND REDUNDANCY FOR LA SENZA WORKERS

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Administrators commit to revert later today on workers’ concerns

The Mandate Trade Union has said that discussions with KPMG – over outstanding monies and redundancy payments owed to La Senza workers – are ongoing. Michael Meegan, Mandate’s Divisional Organier, explained that the two sides – including some of the La Senza workers that were told yesterday that their employment had been terminated with immediate effect – met in the Clarion Hotel near Dublin’s Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.

“The two sides met for an hour and during this time Mandate officials and the La Senza workers set out our concerns about the monies owed to staff in relation to pay, overtime and holidays, as well as redundancy. KPMG listened to what we had to say and have agreed to take the workers’ concerns to KPMG in the UK and have said they will revert to us later today with a response,” Michael Meegan said.

“In the meantime the sit-in at Liffey Valley continues with the full support of the Mandate Trade Union as well as the wider public and political leaders across the political spectrum. Mandate and the workers remain as determined as ever to do whatever is necessary to get a just settlement for the La Senza workers,” Michael Meegan concluded.