After nominating Derry's best 'temp' worker, Grafton Recruitment is planning to award the best temporary worker at a national level ceremony later this year.

A spokesperson for the IRSP in Derry hit out angrily at the announcement stating "temporary employment means nowadays a regression of many years of workers struggle for a proper wage and working conditions. Temporary employment means no holiday or sick entitlements, an uncertainty due to temporary contracts that doesn't allow workers to organise any type of future, as they never know just how long they are going to be employed for.

"Temporary employment suits the bosses down to the ground as they have total impunity of dismissal at any time. That's why they pay a certain amount of money out to the recruitment company and that's why the temporary worker often works for far less money than the rest of the workforce who do the same job. That's nothing to celebrate or to be happy about.

The spokesperson concluded saying "our party finds it offensive and sickening in the extreme at the fact of what passes for a decent job these days is now being legitimized in the form of a 'National Awards for Slave Labour' for members of our class who find it difficult enough to access a decent job with a decent days wage!

"Work is a right of each and every citizen. The IRSP therefore called upon the city council, trade unions and other political representatives in the city come out and oppose with us the growth of this modern day slave trade and to make sure that any employment being offered in the city meets the decent standards which its citizens fought for and deserve!"

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