Waterford firefighter’s public holiday pay complaint fails

The Workplace Relations Commission found Ross Skelly’s complaint about public holiday pay against Waterford City and County Council was not well founded. The decision was dated 17 October 2022. Skelly, a firefighter, argued that premiums and allowances should have been included in his holiday pay. The Council said the calculation used his normal rate of pay and excluded overtime and allowances. The WRC relied on a Labour Court ruling that the allowances either covered costs or varied with the shifts worked, so they did not have to be included in the calculation.