FULL RECOMMENDATION
SECTION 26(1), INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT, 1990 PARTIES : NUTRICIA INFANT NUTRITION LIMITED (REPRESENTED BY IRISH BUSINESS AND EMPLOYERS' CONFEDERATION) - AND - TECHNICAL, ENGINEERING AND ELECTRICAL UNION DIVISION : Chairman: Mr Haugh Employer Member: Mr Murphy Worker Member: Mr McCarthy |
1. Hearing arising from Labour Court Recommendation No 21349.
BACKGROUND:
2. This dispute was also the subject of Labour Court Recommendation No 21349in which the Court recommended the parties resume local level discussions with a view to achieving an agreed settlement between themselves.
A Labour Court hearing took place on the6 June 2017.
UNION’S ARGUMENTS:
3. 1. The Union is demanding the immediate application of the pay increases as outlined in LCR No. 21349.
2. The Company should seek to recruit new Craft employees to add to its existing Maintenance Team.
EMPLOYER'S ARGUMENTS:
4. 1. The Company has acted in a fair and reasonable manner at all times in dealing with this matter and has extensively engaged with the Union locally and at the WRC on three occasions.
2. The Company has made numerous proposals on pay in pursuit of resolution of this matter.
RECOMMENDATION:
The within dispute concerns a pay claim in respect of 7 Craft Workers employed at the Company’s facility in Macroom, Co. Cork. The most recent pay agreement that applied to this group of Workers expired in December 2014.
The dispute was the subject of an earlier Recommendation of the Court (LCR21349 dated 29 November 2016) in which the Court recommended the parties resume local level discussions with a view to achieving an agreed settlement between themselves. The Parties accepted the Court’s Recommendation and engaged in detailed discussions which resulted in a comprehensive proposal from the Company dated 1 February 2017.
The Court has considered in detail both the terms of the proposed agreement and the Union’s ongoing concerns at a resumed hearing in Dublin on 6 June 2017. Having done so, the Court recommends that the Union should accept the terms of the revised draft agreement dated 1 February 2017 with one amendment i.e. the word ‘generally’ to be removed from the penultimate sentence of Clause 5.
The Court so recommends.
Signed on behalf of the Labour Court
Alan Haugh
CR______________________
12th June, 2017Deputy Chairman
NOTE
Enquiries concerning this Recommendation should be addressed to Ciaran Roche, Court Secretary.