Airport staff in sit-in protest
Staff at Galway Airport are staging a sit-in protest until they receive assurances they will be paid their statutory redundancy entitlements.
Most of the airport’s 61-strong workforce were let go before Christmas following Aer Arann’s decision to withdraw its flights for the winter.
The regional airline had been the sole scheduled passenger operator at the Carnmore airport.
Since Christmas, a group of approximately 14 workers has been operating the airport which continues to be used by a number of private aircraft.
Last month, however, Bank of Ireland withdrew €1.1 million from the bank account of the company which operates the airport to set it off against the company’s loans.
As a result, the company yesterday told the remaining employees it could no longer guarantee they would be paid the minimum statutory redundancy when the company ceases to trade.
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