Labour Court declines to hear Pavels Dimitrijevs’s appeal against Sam Dennigan and Company

The Labour Court found it had no jurisdiction to hear Pavels Dimitrijevs’s appeal under the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 against Sam Dennigan and Company. The determination was dated 17 November 2015; the merits were not decided. The Court found that the Rights Commissioner document, although headed under the 1997 Act, contained no decision under it and appeared instead to concern a complaint under the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994. The appeal required a Rights Commissioner decision on whether the 1997 Act had been contravened, so the Court could not hear it.