Trinity ordered to reinstate three staff cut over funding

The Labour Court has told TCD to re-employ three staff who were let go last year, because under the Croke Park Agreement there should be no compulsory redundancies in the public service.

The court said the two lecturers and a librarian should be reinstated and that the university must “manage any issues arising through the flexibility, redeployment and retraining provisions set out in the [Croke Park] agreement or as appropriate through a scheme of voluntary redundancy”.

The Irish Federation of University Teachers, which represented the affected staff, had argued that TCD was in contravention of Croke Park as it provided a commitment that redundancy would not apply within the public service before the agreement expires in 2014.