Labour Court recommends four-week assessment in Beamish & Crawford forklift dispute

In 2003, the Labour Court recommended a four-week joint assessment in a dispute between Beamish & Crawford and the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union over forklift drivers' €77 differential after a new bottling line brought productivity and work-practice changes. The recommendation was dated 18 September 2003. The Court said the parties' earlier joint assessment had not taken place; each side had made its own assessment and reached different results. It recommended that the assessment be agreed by the parties, with a possible return to the Court for a final recommendation if no agreement followed.