Labour Court varies £42 allowance for Coras Iompair Eireann worker

In 1994, the Labour Court varied a recommendation concerning a Coras Iompair Eireann worker's £42 annual medical allowance, allowing it to apply for the time being subject to annual review. The decision was signed on 21 March 1994. The company had appealed the Rights Commissioner's recommendation to pay the allowance to a worker living in Northern Ireland, where no company panel doctor operated. The company argued that free medical services were available there. The National Bus And Rail Union said the worker had to pay for medical services in southern Ireland for his children. The Court said the worker would not normally qualify but considered his locality and his family's particular and possibly urgent needs.