Labour Court upholds recommendation rejecting NEC worker’s Machine Setter claim

The Labour Court upheld a Rights Commissioner’s recommendation that a claim over a Machine Setter vacancy at Nec Semiconductors (Ireland) Limited should fail, and rejected the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union’s appeal. The decision was signed 15 October 1996. The union argued that a probationary worker was appointed despite a six-month experience criterion. The company said the selection process was fair and that it could not offer the claimant a Machine Setter position. The Rights Commissioner had noted that the claimant ranked seventh after tests and interviews. The Labour Court said it could not consider the union’s request to promote whoever ranked third because the original case concerned the claimant. It upheld the recommendation and rejected the appeal.