Over 1,600 Defence Forces personnel awarded compensation for working overtime

PDForra general secretary Gerard Guinan confirmed the number of successful applicants his association had represented to date on the WTD claims. File picture

More than 1,600 enlisted members of the Defence Forces have won compensation for alleged breaches of the Working Time Directive (WTD), but the association representing them believes more cases can be taken.

The settled cases, some of which go back as far as 2014, were fought by the representative association, PDForra, which is urging personnel who have not yet claimed to contact them before the June 16 deadline for applications.