Former Debenhams employees in Cork have formally ended their picket of the company's shop on Patrick Street in the city.
The protest was ongoing for 407 days.
The removal of the pickets follows a vote to accept a settlement offer involving a €3m training fund aimed at resolving their long-running dispute over redundancy payments.
Almost 1,000 workers lost their jobs when Debenhams closed its doors in the Republic of Ireland in April 2020.
Since then some workers have maintained pickets on 11 of the shops to prevent liquidators KPMG from removing stock and progressing the liquidation.
Speaking as the picket was being removed, spokeswoman and former employee at Debenhams, Madeline Whelan, said she was disappointed the workers did not get what they were looking for, but she said they would continue to campaign for legislative change.
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Ms Whelan said: "We are sad that we didn't get what we wanted, but that was down to the Government.
"Once the industrial dimension of our struggle concludes it does not spell the end of the campaigning that many of us are committed to continue in support of the legislative change required to strengthen the legal position of workers in liquidation situations.
She added: "The Government has kicked such a proposal into touch for a year and promised a process of their own leading to some undefined change.
"You can be sure that the Debenhams workers will put their stamp on this debate in the coming year."
