A High Court judge has said he wants a dispute involving two bricklayers and their employers sorted out within 24 hours.
The bricklayers had complained they were not recalled to work at a site after "false allegations" were made against one of them and the court heard yesterday those allegations had been found to have no validity.
Arthur McArdle (59), Old Bawn, Tallaght, Dublin, and his son Aidan McArdle (35), Millbrook Lawns, Tallaght, had gone to court seeking an order restraining Laragan Developments, Strokestown, Co Roscommon, from terminating their employment.
They also sought orders directing that they receive payment for the weeks which have expired since they were laid off by the company and an investigation into why they had not been recalled to work at the Laragan site in Carrickmines after they were temporarily laid-off.
They claimed other workers who were also laid off with them had all been rehired.
The company had denied the claims against them. Ercus Stewart SC, for the men, said a rights commissioner had found there was "no validity" in allegations made against Arthur McArdle.
Following this vindication, the company must re-engage his clients to work at the site. Both men had been out of work since January and had "gone through hell".
Barrister Conor Kearney, for the company, said that while the men would be taken back, he could not give an exact date when they could restart work or outline the terms and conditions of their return. Mr Justice Thomas Smyth said he wanted the matter "sorted out" and did not want to see it "drag on". He adjourned the case to this afternoon .
At a hearing last month, Mr Stewart said his clients began working as bricklayers at a site at Carrickmines in April 2006 but were laid off last November when rock was encountered on the site. In January they learned that work at the site had restarted, but they were not recalled.
Mr Stewart said the men said they were told by an official from the Building and Allied Trades Union, of which they are members, that they were not wanted back because of certain allegations against Arthur McArdle.