Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants

Mr. Greg Ennis:

Significant complaints have been filed with us with regard to workers. I will give on really bad example I was involved in myself of a worker's experience at the height of the crisis in late May. That person went home to eastern Europe, as they did annually, to visit their family and then came back with the intention of self-isolating. The employer said that if the worker self-isolated, there would not be a job for them in two weeks. If that is to be the approach, we need enforcement and policing of this by the HSA.

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