LCR23168

PARTIES:

DIVISION:

SUBJECT:

Referral under Section 20(1) of the Industrial Relations Act 1969.

BACKGROUND:

The Union referred this case to the Labour Court on 25 March 2025 in accordance with Section 20(1) of the Industrial Relations Act, 1969 and agreed to be bound by the Court’s Recommendation.  

A Labour Court hearing took place on 01 July 2025. 

RECOMMENDATION:

The Dispute

This matter was referred to the Court under section 20(1) of the Industrial Relations Act 1969. The Independent Workers Union is seeking recognition for collective bargaining purposes on behalf of its members employed by Abtran (‘the Company’) in its call centre in Cork. The Union is also seeking a recommendation from the Court directing the Company to engage in meaningful negotiations with it in respect of a comprehensive pay claim that has been submitted to the Company. The Company was not in attendance at the within hearing.

Recommendation

The Court recommends that the Company should recognise the Union as the chosen representative of those employees who join the Union for all industrial relations purposes.

The Court further recommends that the parties should enter into negotiations with a view to concluding a collective agreement dealing with, amongst other things, the procedural arrangements within which the normal industrial relations business will be conducted between them.

The Court so recommends.

	Signed on behalf of the Labour Court
	Alan Haugh
ÁM	______________________
22 July 2025	Deputy Chairman

NOTE

Enquiries concerning this Recommendation should be addressed to Ms Áine Maunsell, Court Secretary.