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Labour Court rejects worker’s appeal over fixed-term work complaint

By Eimear Byrne

Labour Court ·

The Labour Court rejected a worker’s appeal and affirmed a Rights Commissioner’s decision that it had no jurisdiction to hear her complaint under the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003. The determination was signed on 26 July 2012; the merits were not decided. The worker argued that repeated renewals of her Community Employment Scheme contract entitled her to a contract of indefinite duration. The Court found that the scheme was a publicly supported training, integration or vocational retraining programme, placing her contract outside the Act. The respondents were City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee, FAS National Training & Employment Authority and Finglas Sports Development Group.

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