Workers at outsourcing firm Covalen, who are members of the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU), will take strike action today in a dispute over redundancy pay and union recognition.<\/p>\n
Covalen provides services such as content moderation and AI training for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n
In November, Covalen commenced consultation with some of its staff in relation to potential redundancies.<\/p>\n
The company did not disclose the number of impacted employees and declined to comment on reports that around 400 jobs were at risk.<\/p>\n
The CWU said that the affected staff are only being offered statutory redundancy, which is two weeks pay per year of service, capped at \u20ac600 per week, plus one week.<\/p>\n
It is seeking enhanced redundancy terms and is calling on the company to engage with the union.<\/p>\n
The striking workers will stage a picket outside Covalen’s office in Sandyford in Dublin this afternoon, and have threatened to take further strike action next week.<\/p>\n
“Offering only statutory redundancy in these circumstances is indefensible,” said Ian McArdle, Deputy General Secretary of the CWU.<\/p>\n
“The answer is simple, enhanced redundancy pay in line with the industry norms should be on offer,” Mr McArdle said.<\/p>\n
Covalen said it has always prioritised direct and open engagement with employees.<\/p>\n
“Covalen is working hard on its redeployment programme and has successfully redeployed a significant number of employees, 108 employees to date,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“The company is continuing to work with the teams impacted and expect to make further offers of redeployment over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n
“In the meantime, the company will continue to engage with our teams and our commitment to direct and meaningful dialogue remains unchanged.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers at outsourcing firm Covalen, who are members of the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU), will take strike action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-269607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115846199939057399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}