The Government has rejected suggestions from the constructions industry that it should intervene to defer pay rises due to thousands of building workers next month.said on Wednesday that the statutory increase due under the sectoral employment order for the construction industry would take effect from the beginning of October.
It is understood that the Tánaiste declined to intervene and that the increase is now expected to go ahead in most cases. The CIF told members that it would be applying to the Labour Court to amend the terms of the SEO to cancel the increase due. However, it said it acknowledged that that any amendment to the terms of the order could not be made before October 1st.
On July 31st the High Court granted a stay on the construction and mechanical sectoral employment orders pending the outcome of the appeal by the State to the Court of Appeal /The CIF told members that the granting of the stay by the High Court “means that construction workers have a legal entitlement to an increase in pay and pensions of 2.7 per cent on 1st October next”.
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