Labour Court recommends employer adopt union’s apprenticeship service proposal for redundancy selection

The Labour Court recommended that Schindler Limited Trading As Schindler Lifts Ireland agree to the Technical, Engineering And Electrical Union’s proposal on counting apprenticeship service in redundancy selection. The recommendation was signed on 26 November 2009. The dispute concerned the last-in, first-out principle. The union argued that only service after an apprenticeship should count, while the employer argued that all consecutive service should count. The Court said comparable employment practice should guide the approach and urged unions and employers to develop a common understanding or code of practice.