La Senza workers occupy

Submitted by Matthew on 18 January, 2012 - 1:34

La Senza workers are occupying one of their company’s stores in Dublin’s Liffey Valley shopping centre as bosses attempt to make workers pay for a downturn in company fortunes.

Lingerie retailer La Senza went into administration in December and has sold off several of its outlets. Workers fear that they won’t receive overtime payments for December, and occupiers have accused management of using administration as a “smokescreen” to restructure the company and make workers redundant. Over 1,000 La Senza workers have already lost their jobs.

“At every stage in the process, workers have been misled and misinformed”, occupiers said in a statement. “Stores received closing-down notices, but were told not to worry and to continue to trade as normal.

“We worked through Christmas and New Year with the threat of store closures looming over us. In spite of this enormous worry, we continued to deliver customer service to the highest standard and take as much money as possible for the business. We’re only asking for what we’re entitled to; our wages and our overtime.”

Occupiers include workers from stores across Dublin.

• For a video on the occupation, see here.

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