Irish Federation of University Teachers

The Labour Court has recommended that the Department of Education should pay €60,000.00 to four members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers who were given early retirement when St Catherine’s College of Education for Home Economics, Dublin closed in August 2007.

The Labour Court issued its decision having found that “there was a level of inadequacy” in the Department’s role in helping the claimants to find alternative positions when the college closed. Therefore the Court upheld IFUT’s claim that the decision to remove the claimants from the payroll was “unfair in the circumstances”.

This is the second time the Department’s handling of the closure of St Catherine’s has been successfully challenged by IFUT.

For more on this story, see our Press Release.

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