The Workplace Relations Commission initially awarded the 800 workers eight weeks pay but this was reduced to two weeks on foot of an appeal to the Labour Court
Trade Union Mandate which represents the workers says KPMG attends to mount a further appeal to the High Court on a point of law on the 2 week pay out
Over 300 staff lost their jobs in Cork in 2020 when the department store went into liquidation and they mounted pickets demanding their 2016 redundancy agreement be honoured
Former Debenhams shop steward Valerie Conlon says this latest development is very disappointing
