Labour Court upholds Rimantas Juodris’s annual-leave claim against Ruskim Seafoods

The Labour Court upheld Rimantas Juodris’s complaint that Ruskim Seafoods Ltd failed to pay him for one day of annual leave, while dismissing three other claims under the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. Its determination was dated 23 October 2015, following appeals by Juodris and the employer. The Court dismissed the daily-rest and workplace-break claims because road-transport regulations governed working time for mobile workers, making the overlapping Act provisions inapplicable. It rejected Juodris’s claim that he lacked enough notice of his finishing times: roster sheets showed estimated finish times, and uncontested evidence indicated that he sometimes finished earlier. Ruskim accepted that it had omitted pay for one day of annual leave, and the Court affirmed the Rights Commissioner’s decision on that complaint.