Administration at Dublin Airport has referred to as for what’s says is an “pointless risk” of strikes to be lifted in a dispute over its alleged failure to pay wages on time.
DAA spokesperson mentioned it has acknowledged considerations with payroll raised by Siptu on behalf of its members.
“And we name on them to withdraw the pointless risk of commercial motion and to proceed to have interaction with us to resolve the problems inside our agreed dispute decision procedures,” he mentioned.
Earlier, Siptu members revealed they had been contemplating industrial motion on the airport.
The union mentioned employee representatives employed by the DAA “ have declared no confidence of their administration”.
It mentioned they’ve begun preparations for balloting members for industrial motion in a dispute over the “repeated failure to pay employees wages on time”.
“Siptu employee representatives are actually endeavor a consultative course of with members within the numerous sections of Dublin Airport with a view to balloting them for industrial motion if this drawback just isn’t rectified,” mentioned Siptu division organiser, Karan O Loughlin.
She mentioned employee representatives voted no confidence in administration and the MyTime pay system at a particular assembly of the union’s DAA part committee yesterday.
Ms O’Loughlin mentioned the pay system was launched by the corporate in 2019.
“Issues with this pay system have resulted in inaccurate funds to employees for the final 9 consecutive months.”
She mentioned this week wages for 1000’s of airport staff that had been resulting from be paid on Wednesday didn’t arrive of their accounts on time.
Ms O’Loughlin claimed the “debacle” is the most recent in a sequence of “ongoing and constant irregularities” with the fee of wages.
“These have included beneath funds, overpayments or no fee in any respect,” she mentioned.
“This has resulted in missed direct debits and numerous folks lacking work as they didn’t have cash for petrol resulting from delays within the fee of their wages.
“After every thing our members endured this summer time, the least the corporate can do is guarantee they receives a commission, in full, and on time. It’s disgraceful and disrespectful that the DAA suppose there isn’t any urgency to rectify this situation.”
A DAA spokesperson mentioned staff had their pay transferred to their accounts on this fortnight’s scheduled ‘pay day’ of Wednesday “albeit slightly later within the day than regular”.
He mentioned as quickly because the authority grew to become conscious there was a difficulty with the financial institution switch, it instantly knowledgeable all 3,000 plus staff and their union representatives.
“We labored with our financial institution to make sure funds would nonetheless be made to employees that very same day,” he mentioned.
“We saved everybody absolutely knowledgeable on progress on Wednesday and personally spoke to any colleagues who may not obtain fee right into a non-Irish monetary establishment till the subsequent day.”
He mentioned administration has already apologised to employees for any pointless stress or inconvenience the non permanent delay could have brought about.
The spokesperson mentioned this situation was fully separate to a difficulty with the DAA’s third-party time and attendance supplier, Kronos.
He mentioned it was impacted by a cyber-attack to the MyTime software program platform in December 2021.
“As a consequence of that cyber-attack, DAA’s complicated time and attendance system for a 24 hour, one year of the yr operation, was unavailable for 14 weeks till the MyTime system was restored,” he mentioned. “All Kronos clients worldwide skilled comparable outages. “
“Administration has been in common and frequent contact with all our commerce union companions as we labored by the problems attributable to that outage and the resultant guide processes that had been essentially put in place at a time of quickly accelerated worldwide journey with a whole lot of recent staff becoming a member of the enterprise in consequence,” he mentioned.
“This matter has been and stays a prime precedence for each the DAA board of administrators and govt workforce who’re absolutely dedicated to resolving any excellent points.”
