Labour Court rejects Services Industrial Professional Technical Union’s extra-pay claim

The Labour Court did not recommend conceding the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union’s claim for extra pay when Abbott Cootehill proposed assigning some quality checks to packing operators. The recommendation, signed on 19 April 2010, followed a dispute over whether the added inspection duties warranted higher pay. Abbott Cootehill said the changes fell within existing cooperation arrangements. The Court found the transfer of inspection functions was not significant enough to warrant additional payments and was not covered by the agreement’s provision on transfers to higher duties.