Labour Court rejects ISS Ireland pay claim but recommends paid night-shift break

The Labour Court did not recommend concession of the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union’s pay claim against ISS Ireland Limited for workers cleaning Dart carriages in Bray. It recommended a paid one-hour break within the workers’ eight-hour night shift. The recommendation was signed on 24 September 2007. The union said workers were paid for seven hours of an eight-hour shift and sought the earlier €12 hourly rate. The Court found that rate had applied to a particular short-notice deep-cleaning job. It recommended that the workers be paid for their breaks, effective from when the shifts began in May 2005.