"The mayor has to intervene. He keeps telling us to return to the negotiating table - well, if he invites us to a meeting, we will attend. "Our members are not asking for a king's ransom. We want progress towards recognition about the impact of shift work. "We are not asking for an immediate drop from a 35-hour week to 32. We have been discussing this since 2018 and we are open to discussions."
The Labour Court has told lawyers it is facing a "severe impact" on its operations after the Department of Public Expenditure "blocked" the reappointment of a senior official, leaving it running at one-third capacity. Legal professionals working in the area of employment law were told in a statement this afternoon that there would be "serious delays to [the court's] hearing of individual employment rights cases" and to the resolution of industrial relations disputes, starting this week.