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IRISH WATER WORKERS look set to contend a decision by the company not to pay them bonuses due for work carried out last year.
It is believe that unions representing those employed by Irish Water parent company Ervia feel that terms of an agreement that was reached in 2013 are not being honoured and the issue will now be brought before the Labour Relation Commission (LRC).
Ervia, who were operating as Bord Gais Éireann at the time, agreed that the system of payment to workers would include a bonus system.
However, it was revealed last year that some workers could receive these payments even if their performances failed to reach a standard.
Speaking on RTÉ’s This Week programme earlier today, Adrian Kane, a representative from SIPTU explained why they had decided to take the action.
“This money, people had earned it. They had performed to a standard and by virtue of the agreement that we had in place the money was due and people were very angry that they didn’t receive the payment when it was due,” he said.
As to why we have taken the decision to refer the dispute to the Labour Relations Commission, there is this wider issue in terms of the pay model. In light of the company failing to honour the terms of the existing model, we are now looking to put back in place effectively what was in place before. A more orthodox and transparent incremental pay system.
Before a decision was taken by management to withhold bonus payments, staff had been set to be paid in the first months of this year for work carried out last year.
The dispute is due to go before the LRC on 13 July.
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very moving documentary and very difficult to watch. just goes to show that how a person is treated as a child stays with them all through life.
Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize. I hope Christina and her siblings schedule re-unions a few times each year. They deserve to have the time to be together without the intrusion of media and cameras. It might help them fill the empty space that they hover over at the moment. Each of the four no doubt have their own separate circles of friends. They need now to be afforded the space to reaffirm that special circle of friends called family.
She has such passion for children.she is an inspiration to us all.it was a compelling programme
I read her book nearly two decades ago and it still haunts me. I couldn’t understand how her work in Vietnam wasn’t more well known but maybe her account of her childhood was probably too raw for a lot of people. She’s been a personal inspiration.
Some people when they’re at their happiest (singing) show real pain .
Wonderful to see how television reached the hearts of the Irish people (the word premiere was held in Dublin last September). And don’t miss the film NOBLE when it comes around again. It would be nice now to have Journalists, Senators and Politicians comment on Christina Noble’s story, in the context of what is happening in Geneva right now, as Ireland faces the United Nations condemnation of our serious lapses with Human Rights at home.
After watching the programme I think Christina has mentally suffered from her years in an institution you can see the hatred in her against the government and the church at the time and I think her way to deal with that is to look after those unfortunate children .one part where I thought she was out of order was when she made a verbal attack on what she thought was a priest ,you know a lot o priests were sickened as to what happened to these kids too there are a lot of good priest out there . .One more thing I want to say ,I was also institutionalised in an industrial school for years just for not going to school and was abused also but like Jesus I have learned to forgive but not forget I always say those abusers will have to face judgement some day but overall I feel so sorry for Christina for the way it has affected her
@ joeythelad, i agree with you , i found it difficult to watch as christina’s pain is very evident and of course well founded. i was also surprised with the response she got in the pub , dont why ? what i find surprising is that many people either dont know that she is irish or dont know anything about her work at all!
i hope herself and her family have the time they need to try and bond and she finds some peace. so glad that you have learned to forgive , i am not so sure i could forgive, all the best
What a great woman
Nice house in Texas as well
denise, did you watch the programme? what has her brothers house in texas got to do with it? such an odd comment for this story!
I know,Denise !
What should we do about it ? Genuine question .
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