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Wed 01 Jan 2009Payouts for carpet workers despite fraud admissions
THREE FORMER workers at a Waterford carpet factory have been awarded five-figure compensation sums for unfair dismissal by the Employment Appeals Tribunal in spite of long-running "irregularities" involving the company's clocking-in system.
The tribunal was told that some of the 40 staff at Waterford Carpets were clocked in and paid while still at home, did not do full shifts or stayed in the factory and played cards or "snoozed" in the warehouse if a job was done.
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