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Rockwood redundancy row
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• Nearly 200 former transport workers of Rockwood Holdings look set for a legal clash with the firm's receivers.
Coopers & Lybrand, which now owns Cork Gully— Rockwood Holdings' receivers from six years ago--says it "does not accept at this point" that the claims from the 188 ex• workers are valid.
Coopers & Lybrand is now in discussing the situation with the workers' lawyers.
The driving and warehouse staff were working at Rockwood Holdings' £25mturnover subsidiary Rockwood Distribution when the group failed. They have issued a High Court writ demanding several hundred thousand pounds of compensation from Coopers & Lybrand. This would cover the difference between the redundancy payments given to the staff by the receivers and the amounts they would have received under a union agreement, says the Transport and General Workers Union, which is co-ordinating the action.
The move follows a House of Lords legal judgement last year which allows workers sacked between 1986 and March 1994—and after 14 days of the appointment of a receiver—to claim their full notice payments from the receiver.