Employers’ challenge to pay agreement fails

ELECTRICAL employers have failed in their High Court challenge to the legally binding system which sets pay and conditions of hundreds of thousands of workers in numerous industries across the economy.

The group of seven named electrical contractor bodies had claimed that, particularly in the electrical industry, the Registered Employment Agreement (REA) system was flawed.

They said the agreement in their industry, made through the Labour Court in 1990, had been hammered out between trade unions and only a minority of employers.