Labour Court rejects union appeal over Becton Dickinson overtime

In 1991, the Labour Court rejected the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union’s appeal over a worker’s reduced overtime earnings at Becton Dickinson And Company Limited. Its decision was signed on 8 November 1991, leaving the Rights Commissioner’s recommendation unchanged. The union said the worker’s overtime earnings fell after he was removed from the machine operators’ rota. The company said overtime declined across the plant amid adverse trading conditions. The Court accepted the union’s point that a comparison with time-served craftsmen was irrelevant, but found no grounds to amend the recommendation, which said the claim for a return to the rota failed.