Labour Court recommends phased pay rises at Curragh Race Course

The Labour Court recommended phased parallel benchmarking increases, with retrospection, for manual employees at Curragh Race Course Ltd. It also recommended talks on a private-sector pay scale and work practices, to be completed before the end of November 2006. The recommendation was dated 19 July 2006. Services Industrial Professional Technical Union sought to retain a long-standing pay link with Kildare County Council rates for 19 employees. The company said public-sector alignment was unsustainable and no longer appropriate. The Court accepted management’s argument that public-sector links were no longer appropriate, while recommending phased increases and further negotiations.