Labour Court rejects IFUT claim for one-seventh pay deduction

The Labour Court rejected IFUT’s claim that National University Ireland, Galway should calculate academic staff pay deductions for a one-day strike using one-seventh, rather than one-fifth, of weekly pay. In its recommendation signed on 21 March 2012, the Court endorsed the university’s established one-fifth calculation. IFUT argued that staff could be required to work weekends and that a one-seventh calculation was used elsewhere in education. The university said the standard working week was Monday to Friday and it used the one-fifth method across universities.