Archive for August, 2008

PDFORRA has secured representation rights for recruits and apprentices for those periods of time when they were not eligible for representation. Agreement was formally reached on this matter in June 2008. It has now been agreed that for that period of recruit training or apprenticeship when recruits and apprentices were not eligible for PDFORRA membership […]

PDFORRA secured a success at the EAT for a member who had his pay stopped for a period when he was sick and had furnished a doctor’s certificate to that effect. The case was taken under the Payment of Wages Act, 1991 on appeal of a Rights Commissioner decision earlier in the year. The EAT […]