16/10/2008

Wage Row Leads To Picket At Wexford Hotel

Sub-contractors and suppliers have planed a series of pickets outside a hotel in Wexford over unpaid wages.

On Thursday, the protestors said they are owed more than €3m in wages for work carried out on the development White's Hotel.

Building work on the four-star complex finished in August 2006, but contractors claim they have only been paid one-third of the money they are owed.

According to media reports, the hotel is refusing to comment on the dispute.

(DW)

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