Formal Labour Court talks in firefighter dispute scheduled for next Monday

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Strike scheduled for Tuesday remains deferred with ongoing industrial action “de-escalated”

Mon Jun 19 2023 - 21:00

The Labour Court has called both sides in the firefighters’ dispute back for talks next week after exploratory discussions between the two sides on Monday. In the meantime the suspension of Tuesday’s strike action announced on Sunday remains in place and other ongoing industrial action will be “de-escalated” to allow for the process to be progress.

Monday talks at the Labour Court, involving representatives of the Local Government Management Agency and Siptu, went on for around seven hours, and while there was little detailed discussion of how differences on pay might be addressed the court’s officials believed there was enough of a basis to work on to call both sides back in next week.

“We didn’t get into any specifics about the today other than to make it clear in our engagement with the court that unless resources are released to deal with the pay and the retainer issues then no solution will be possible,” said Karan O’Loughlin of Siptu after the talks. “The court spoke to all of the parties and still believed that its intervention could be helpful so we take the court’s assurances in that regard.

About 2,000 retained firefighters had been due to start an all-out strike at roughly 200 stations from Tuesday in a long-running dispute over pay as well as rosters and time off. At present the workers receive a retainer of between around €8,000 and €12,000 plus payment for mandatory training after which remuneration is based on call-outs. Time off is a major issue at many stations were staff are expected to be on call 24/7 for 48 weeks a year.

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