The Employers' Group IBEC has accused unions at the ESB of holding the country to ransom by planning industrial action for next month which could lead to electricity power cuts.
Unions at the ESB formally served notice of industrial action on the company yesterday which could begin on 16 December unless agreement is reached in a dispute over pensions.
The ESB argues it has no further liability for deficits in pensions following a restructuring in 2010.
However, unions insist responsibility continues to lie with the company and intend to take industrial action unless the dispute is resolved.
IBEC chief executive Danny McCoy told RTÉ Radio that the strike risk is causing disruption already.
Even if the dispute is resolved before any industrial action, he said the prospect of power cuts has forced some business to take emergency staffing measures to cope with a strike.
Mr McCoy said he felt there was a degree of cynicism in the timing of the planned industrial action - and that unions had "seized the opportunity" to hold industrial action on the day after Ireland's exit from the EU/ECB/IMF bailout on 15 December.
He also described the current dispute as not only damaging to workers in the ESB but also to wider society.
"It's one of the critical pieces of the infrastructure make-up of this country and to be held to ransom at this point is not just damaging for that company and the employees themselves, it's also spilling over to the wider society," argued Mr McCoy.
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