Labour Court recommends including regular overtime in Wyeth workers’ holiday pay

The Labour Court recommended that Wyeth Medica Ireland include average overtime of up to four hours a week in holiday pay for workers covered by its agreement with the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union. The recommendation was signed on 20 May 2008. The company argued that overtime was voluntary and should not be included. The union said workers were contractually obliged to work regular overtime. The Court found that the agreement required employees to work up to four hours of overtime each week, making it part of the normal working week, although the clause had not been invoked in practice.