Gama granted injunction on report into workers' treatment
The Turkish construction firm Gama was today granted a temporary injunction to prevent the publication of a Labour Inspectorate report into the treatment of its workers.
The company has admitted that it failed to keep records of working times, did not issue pay slips and paid its workers eight per cent less than they were entitled to.
At the High Court in Dublin, Judge Peter Kelly granted the company a temporary injunction to prevent Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin from publishing of the report.
However he gave the minister permission to provide the report to five enforcement agencies – the Garda Fraud Squad, the Competition Authority, the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the Garda National Immigration Bureau and the Revenue Commissioner.
He said he would not place any fetter on any action that they might seek to take, civil or criminal on foot of the report.
Judge Kelly added that he would not place any restrictions on the Labour Inspectorate from continuing its investigations into the company.
He said the temporary injunction would apply until the trial of the action taken by Gama’s Turkish and Irish companies against Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin.
