Galway Bay fm newsroom - The Workplace Relations Commission is to intervene in a dispute concerning the overnight working rate for Galway's homeless services employees.
Impact Trade Union says staff at Galway Simon Community are providing services through the night for €4.50 per hour – less than half the national minimum wage.
It argues a Labour Court ruling in 2014 recommended that time spent on overnight sleepover duty should be acknowledged as constituting working time, and that workers should be paid the national minimum hourly rate of €9.25 for this duty.
The trade union is to meet the WRC tomorrow (12/04) afternoon in a bid to progress the campaign.
Padraig Mulligan of Impact says the current rate is simply unfair and the HSE needs to release the required funds to ensure staff receive the minimum hourly rate.
