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by Bernard Harbor

A work-to-rule by IMPACT members in Roscommon County Council is due to start on Tuesday 14th November as management insists it will effectively scrap its flexi-time provisions from next month in defiance of a Labour Court recommendation.

 

The union action will leave phones and emails unanswered, counters unstaffed, and halt staff cooperation with additional duties or work outside normal hours. IMPACT has also warned that strike action is on the cards if management presses ahead with plans to gut flexi-time from 8th December.

 

Earlier this year the Labour Court said there should be no change in the current facility for staff to take 13 days flexi-leave a year. Management initially wanted to reduce this to just two days. Now, in an attempt to side-step the Labour Court recommendation, it is insisting that staff members should submit an individual business case before working up time that would give them the scope to take a day or half-day flexi-leave.

 

IMPACT welcomed the Court’s recommendation, which confirmed that Roscommon council staff should have the same rights as their colleagues throughout the local government sector. But the union says management is continuing to ignore the ruling of the State’s senior industrial relations authority.

 

The Labour Court recommendation, which is binding on both sides, pointed to the Haddington Road agreement’s provisions on flexi-time, which say: “no change is proposed to the existing terms with regard to the amount or the use of hours to be carried over.” That protection carried into the current Public Service Stability Agreement (PSSA).

 

Management also wants to remove control of the scheme from line managers who understand local service needs.

 

IMPACT says flexi-time is of most benefit to low paid women workers with childcare commitments, because it allows them work up time, which that can later be taken as leave or flexible working.

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