The Labour Court recommended referring a dispute over the deployment of 11 outdoor staff to the Sectoral Oversight Body, saying the matter was not properly before it under section 26 of the Industrial Relations Act. The recommendation was signed on 20 July 2016. The staff, formerly employed by Cobh Town Council, are now employed by Cork County Council. The Services Industrial Professional Technical Union argued that requiring them to work across the enlarged Cobh Municipal District amounted to unilateral redeployment and should proceed first by volunteers, then by seniority. Cork County Council did not accept that its instructions amounted to redeployment.
Labour Court recommends referring outdoor staff deployment dispute to oversight body
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