The Labour Court upheld the decision rejecting An Post postal operative Derek Keenan’s health-and-safety penalisation complaint. Its determination was dated 18 May 2022.
Keenan said he refused to deliver mail without hand sanitiser on 16 March 2020. Two days later, he worked an extra two hours delivering the outstanding mail without extra pay. He said he had been promised three hours’ overtime under An Post’s Double Up arrangement. An Post said that payment applied when extra deliveries were needed because an employee had been absent, which was not the case. It also said Keenan had been paid in full on 16 March and was not sanctioned.
The Court found that the Double Up arrangement did not cover these circumstances and that Keenan had not shown he was penalised for raising a health-and-safety concern. It upheld the original decision and his appeal failed.