Budget Travel Company News

Sacked Budget Travel lodge mass unfair dismissal claim

30 October 2009: Over 70 sacked Budget Travel staff lodged unfair dismissal claims against the Scandavian owned travel company in Dublin today.

They handed in their forms at the Employment Appeals Tribunal a week to the day that they were sacked when the company closed 14 of its 31 shops in the Republic.

A total of 71 dismissed staff will be lodging claims against the company claiming unfair dismissal and wrongful selection for redundancy.

Manuel Cortes, union assistant general secretary, accused the Swedish owned travel giant Primera Travel of treating its Irish staff like "second class citizens".

"They have gone through a sham consultation exercise which ended after three months with the same number of staff being thrown out of work with the legal minimum in redundancy payments as they proposed on day one.

"This is a multi million pound company operating across six` different countries. It can easily afford to treat its Irish workforce decently but it has decided to kick them in the teeth instead."

28 October 2009: News Release

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