Bid to achieve Iarnród Éireann savings

The Labour Court has summoned Iarnród Éireann and its unions to talks on how to achieve up to €8.5m in savings.

For more than a year, the sides have been in talks on how best to achieve the savings. The company wants €4.7m of the total to come from the staff wage bill involving cuts to the pay of the 3,800 staff.

Proposals by the Labour Relations Commission on how to achieve the monies were rejected by four of the five unions at the company last month. At that point, Iarnród Éireann said it would seek an urgent referral of the pay and productivity proposals to the Labour Court. Now the court has come back to the parties offering to hold a hearing on April 4.