asked the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure that the group of workers who were transferred from the employment of Dublin Corporation to the Dublin Health Authority and subsequently to the Eastern Health Board retain that parity with Dublin Corporation rates to which they are entitled by virtue of ministerial assurances to that effect at the time of transfer.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Eastern Health Board Employees.
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The rights of the staff concerned was the subject of a Labour Court hearing in August, 1976. The claim before the court was that a productivity agreement applicable to Dublin Corporation employees since 1975 should be applied to the men.
The court ruled that the undertaking given on the transfer of the staff to the Dublin Health Authority in 1960 must not necessarily apply in all circumstances and for all time. In particular, the court did not hold that the increases given in 1975 by the corporation to the majority of their general workers under a productivity agreement must be given to the transferred workers. The court recommended that the increase sought by the union on behalf of the transferred workers should form part of the claim for a productivity agreement which unions are making on behalf of the colleagues of the transferred workers in the employment of the board. This has been done and proposals for settlement have been put to the men's union.