Shannon Heritage told to pay staff for frozen salaries

Workers say Bunratty Castle firm promised to pay withheld increments when finances recovered; company carried out ‘significant’ capital investment at visitor centre last year

Bunratty Castle

Shannon Heritage, the company behind Bunratty Castle, has been ordered to make back-payments to its staff to cover increments it froze during the recession.

In a recommendation delivered this month, the Labour Court said that the company should pay workers “the outstanding 2014 increment with full retrospection to July 2014”.

The company – which employs nearly 400 people, 137 on a full-time basis and around 260 seasonal workers – has eight weeks from ...