WRC rejects four complaints over reduced overtime earnings at hospital

The Workplace Relations Commission rejected four complaints by Colm Potts against Health Service Executive St Michaels Hospital, finding them not well-founded in a decision dated 12 December 2024. No award was recorded. Potts said outsourcing bed maintenance reduced his overtime and income, and alleged changes to his employment terms, unpaid wages, penalisation after raising a grievance and disability discrimination. The hospital said his core hours, job title, pay rate and allowances were unchanged and overtime was not guaranteed. The adjudicator found no breach of the statutory statement requirements, no wages shown to be properly payable, no evidence supporting penalisation and no link between the reduced work and disability.