Labour Court recommends split pay increase for nine Coca Cola Hellenic workers

The Labour Court recommended that Coca Cola Hellenic apply half of the 2017 pay increase for nine workers as a pay rise and pay the other half as a lump sum. The recommendation was signed on 14 May 2018. The Group of Workers, represented by the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union, sought the applicable increase, backdated to 1 May 2017, for workers at or above the top of their pay bands. Coca Cola Hellenic, represented by the Irish Business and Employers' Confederation, proposed paying the increase as a lump sum, as it had done previously. The dispute concerned only how the 2017 agreement applied to those nine workers.