Shorts 'unlawfully deducted pay'

Workers recently accepted new pay deal from Shorts

An industrial tribunal has ruled that the Belfast aerospace company Bombardier Shorts has unlawfully deducted wages from some of its workers

It follows a dispute over holiday entitlement going back to 1995.

The ruling has been welcomed by senior trade union official Joe Bowers.

He said "It is a multimillion pound settlement and it will affacted workers to varying degrees.

"Shift workers have lost up to 30 hours-per week holiday entitlement."

Last September workers at Shorts voted to accept a new pay deal.

At the time union leaders said the 43% vote against the offer pointed to the need to rebuild relationships between workers and the management.

However the deal stopped two months of industrial action at the company.