Dublin City Council staff must work extra hour a week

Around 4,000 members of Impact and Siptu at Dublin City Council will now have to work one hour more each week after losing their “banking hour”.

It follows the Labour Court, in a binding decision, recommending the abolition of the banking hour as there is no longer any justification for it.

Mark Fielding, the chief executive of the small firms body Isme, said yesterday that in the age of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), ATMs, smart cards, payments by phone and credit cards, workers taking time off work to bank “beggars belief and is ridiculous”.