Labour Court rejects NBRU claim on certified sick days

The Labour Court rejected the NBRU Services Industrial Professional Technical Union’s claim to exclude single certified sick days from Dublin Bus’s self-certification allowance. The scheme had counted each single certified sick day as one of the self-certified days since 1988. The union sought a change, while Dublin Bus said any single day of absence counted under the scheme, whether medically certified or self-certified. The Court said no argument had been made at the hearing to justify the proposed change. The recommendation was signed on 23 December 2015.