Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I raise with the Taoiseach the treatment of Aer Lingus workers by company management. For five months now they have been blocked by management from getting the short-time working payment to which they are entitled. Workers have been providing the relevant UP12 forms to the company with the details of the reduced hours they are on. However, the company has not been forwarding that information accurately to the Department of Social Protection. Instead, continuously and consistently, the company has put the wrong information on the forms, indicating that workers have been doing full hours while they have only been on 50% of total hours. The workers fear there is an attempt effectively to starve them out of the company and replace them with new workers on worse terms and conditions.

The company is in receipt of substantial State money through the temporary Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme, so will the Government intervene immediately to ensure the forms are filled out correctly and workers can get the money they are owed for Christmas or else threaten to freeze the funds?

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