Labour Court rejects Limerick Roches Stores clerical staff pay claim

The Labour Court recommended that Roches Stores not concede Mandate’s claim for a higher pay rate for clerical and administrative staff in its Limerick store. The recommendation was signed on 12 April 2001. Mandate argued the workers did comparable work to staff paid more elsewhere, while the company said the higher-paid Dublin staff performed different duties. The Court did not accept there was a substantial basis to break the long-standing pay parity between sales and clerical staff.