Freight Transport Association Ireland has welcomed a move by the Department for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to resolve issues around working time legislation for mobile workers.
But Neil McDonnell, the Association’s General Manager, says the department must ensure officials at the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) are fully briefed on the laws.

Richard Bruton, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, has signed statutory instrument 342/2015 that addresses a number of issues that FTA Ireland has long complained about. It exempts mobile workers from certain sections of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 (OWTA) which were never intended to cover them.

It also removes the need for transport companies to compile OWT1 forms to account for the hours worked by mobile workers, which was a practical impossibility in the international sector.

Mr McDonnell said: “Signing this statutory instrument is not enough. Minister Bruton must now follow through with the Labour Relations Commission and ensure that all its officials, without exception, are immediately and fully conversant with the working time laws for mobile workers, which have in fact existed throughout the EU since 2002. Observance of these laws by the labour relations machinery in Ireland is long overdue.”

FTA Ireland expects that common sense will prevail among officers of the LRC, and that any outstanding claims based on the relevant sections of the OWTA will automatically fall. Unfortunately the issue of unlawful determinations that have already been made against operators by the LRC will not be addressed.

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