Labour Court rules on 2% Irish Cement pay hike

The Labour Court has recommended that workers at Irish Cement receive a pay increase of 2% in spite of the company claiming that domestic demand is only 30% of what it was in 2007.

Workers at the CRH subsidiary were seeking an 11% pay increase having been hit hard by the recession. Pay rates at the firm were frozen between 2010 and 2012 and in 2012 and 2013 there was a 6% reduction in pay and a further 6% reduction in 2014.

The 2014 agreement provided for pay rates to be restored to January 2019. However, the firm was resisting claims by Siptu, Unite, and the TEEU for a restoration of the 6% pay reduction now and a 5% increase going forward.