Row over Dublin Airport Authority police contracts

Greater certainty should be provided by Dublin Airport Authority to 20 airport police hired at the start of the year on short-term contracts , the Labour Court has recommended.

It follows a dispute between the DAA and Siptu over the DAA’s right to use 12-month contracts to hire new recruits.

Siptu representatives argued workers recently hired as airport police should be recruited on contracts of indefinite duration as opposed to 12-month temporary assignment or fixed-term contracts and that the DAA had deviated from previous recruitment practice.