Labour Court upholds grievance recommendation in DIT overtime dispute

The Labour Court upheld a Rights Commissioner’s recommendation in an overtime dispute involving Dublin Institute Of Technology (Dit) and an unnamed carpenter at its Bolton St. site. The decision was signed on 2 October 2009. The worker said he had not been offered overtime after raising a complaint, while a general operative regularly did carpentry work on overtime. DIT said overtime had to be approved by management in advance. The Court found the recommendation that the worker use DIT’s grievance procedure was reasonable and should be implemented.