In 1993, the Labour Court upheld Irish Rail's appeal against a recommendation for £500 compensation over a worker's weekend overtime. The decision, dated 7 October, reversed the Rights Commissioner's recommendation after the Court found the union could not sustain the finding that the worker's earnings would diminish. The original recommendation had been issued in May.
The worker, an engineering operative at a wagon works depot, said changes to rostering after a colleague retired reduced his overtime earnings. The Services Industrial Professional Technical Union argued that overtime was shared with colleagues without an equitable distribution to the worker. Irish Rail said the worker's earnings had increased since April 1992 and there was no basis for compensation. The Labour Court heard the appeal in Limerick in September.