Labour Court adds £400 settlement recommendation in Japan Boutique pay dispute

In 1992, the Labour Court varied a Rights Commissioner’s recommendation in a pay dispute involving Japan Boutique and a shop assistant represented by the Irish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union. The decision was dated 17 December 1992. The Court added a recommendation that the company offer, and the worker accept, £400 in full and final settlement of her pay dispute for November 1991 to September 1992. The Court left unchanged the finding that the worker did not qualify for the chargehand rate at the time, while accepting there was substance to her argument that extra duties had arisen. Japan Boutique denied appointing her as a chargehand and said her duties matched those of other shop assistants.