McTavish Ramsay workers win maximum redundancy award
Workers who lost their jobs at Dundee's McTavish Ramsay factory in May have been awarded the maximum of 90 days' redundancy pay.
- By Alan Wilson
- Published in the Courier : 12.10.10
- Published online : 12.10.10 @ 01.31pm
Sixty-two workers initially lost their jobs after the door-making firm — one of Dundee's oldest manufacturers — went into receivership in April.
A further 24 staff, who were kept on the payroll by receivers KPMG in an effort to keep the business going until a buyer could be found, were made redundant a month later after joint receiver Blair Nimmo announced they had been unsuccessful.
On behalf of the workforce, trade union GMB Scotland had launched a claim with the Employment Tribunals service against the company, which was unrepresented at the hearing last month.
In a judgment issued on Monday, judge Raymond Williamson ruled that the company had failed to comply with any of the requirements of the relevant section of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (consolidation) Act 1992 in respect of the collective redundancies which commenced on April 27.
He found that the GMB was an independent trade union recognised by the respondent which had an obligation to inform and consult in terms of the act.
Mr Williamson said the majority of the workforce were dismissed without notice by the receivers, acting on behalf of the respondents on April 27 and that neither before nor after the appointment did the respondents take any steps to comply with any of the provisions of the act.
Accordingly, he said, the respondent's default is at the maximum level of culpability and the tribunal considered it just and equitable that the protected period should be at the maximum period of 90 days.
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