Labour Court does not recommend conceding union’s pay equity claim against Forfás

The Labour Court did not recommend conceding the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union’s claim for pay equity across Forfás’s Level F grade. The union sought to extend the value of a car allowance, consolidated into the pay scale, to staff outside the ex-ABT Grade 8 group. Forfás argued that its agreement with the union had resolved a long-standing claim for the distinct ex-ABT Grade 8 group. The Court said the wider claim fell outside the no-cost-increasing-claims clause in Sustaining Progress and was barred under that agreement. The recommendation was signed on 24 October 2005.