USI to Follow SIPTU Recommendations

We call on the USI to follow the recommendations of Ireland's largest trade union, SIPTU, and reinstate it's suspended staff member's pay until the outcome of the Rights Commissioner.

www.siptu.ie article:

Union of Students in Ireland should lift suspension
Date Released: 24 Jul 2006

SIPTU has called the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) to immediately lift an unfair suspension of a manager employed by USI. SIPTUs Education Branch Organiser, Ms Chris Rowland said the worker concerned has a good employment record with the USI.

The USI acted in a wholly unacceptable manner in suspending this worker - completely outside due process and fair procedures, she said. The worker has been denied access to employment since June 20, 2006 and has had no income to support himself or his family since then.

SIPTU has requested that the worker be immediately re-instated or at least paid his wages while on suspension pending an investigation of the case by a Rights Commissioner scheduled for August 10, 2006, but USI management has refused to lift the suspension or pay the employee while suspended.

We expect a higher standard of employment practice from an organisation like the Union of Students in Ireland, she concluded.