
Employment Rights Appeals to the Labour Court…Part 2
Preparing for a Labour Court Hearing on Employment Rights Scope of the Article This series of articles is intended to give a guide to those dealing with an employment rights case before the Labour Court on appeal from an Adjudication Officer of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).
In the first part of this series Caroline Jenkinson, Strategic Adviser with Stratis, and Former Deputy Chairman of the Labour Court, covered The Workplace Relations Act 2015 and highlights why

Existing Agreements on Pay Must be Honoured by Trade Unions
In responding to the latest announcement by SIPTU (11.04.22) that the union is “to seek greater pay increases across private sector to offset inflation”and will also seek to “re-renegotiate earlier deals that are no longer sufficient to recompense workers for the increase in inflation”, Stratis Managing Partner, Brendan McGinty has stated that “This position, if pursued, will run entirely contrary to the critical importance for all parties of honouring collective agreements