In 1998, the Labour Court recommended that the worker operating an Arvor bag-making machine at Faulkner Packaging Limited be paid above the £195 weekly maximum. The parties were to meet to agree the salary; if they could not agree within four weeks, the Court could recommend a rate on request. The recommendation was dated 11 December 1998. The Services Industrial Professional Technical Union sought a differential for the worker, saying her duties warranted extra pay. The company argued she was not a setter-operator and that engineers handled machine settings and major running problems. The Court found she operated the machine day to day and that the post merited pay above the maximum.
Labour Court recommended pay above £195 weekly maximum at Faulkner Packaging
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