Labour Court recommends double time for Sunday overtime at Muckross Park Hotel

The Labour Court recommended double-time pay for Sunday overtime at Muckross Park Hotel and a 78-hour fortnight during 1996, with the hours in the agreement applying afterwards. The recommendation was signed on 29 April 1996. The Services Industrial Professional Technical Union said the hotel had not implemented parts of its agreement, including Sunday premiums and Phase 2 of the Programme for Competitiveness and Work. The hotel cited financial difficulties and said it needed the flexibility of a 78-hour fortnight. The Court also noted that workers entitled to the Programme increase would receive it.