Discussion a short while ago prompted by Cork Bus Station where the bus areas are full of parked cars and a camper van to dispense drinks to strikers……
Can striking employees enter the employer’s premises and park their cars when on strike?
Can they enter to use the toilet facilities?
Does the insurance cover of the employer extend to private vehicles?
Should the picket be outside the premises? Or can it walk through the premises?
Is the bus lane public thoroughfare or private/semi-private premises?
We didn’t know the answers but expected that they could only do so with permission and then debated as to whether granting such permission would be good or bad for industrial relations.
We did not agree on that either.
So I thought that I’d throw it out to the internet world…..
Can striking employees enter the employer’s premises and park their cars when on strike?
Can they enter to use the toilet facilities?
Does the insurance cover of the employer extend to private vehicles?
Should the picket be outside the premises? Or can it walk through the premises?
Is the bus lane public thoroughfare or private/semi-private premises?
We didn’t know the answers but expected that they could only do so with permission and then debated as to whether granting such permission would be good or bad for industrial relations.
We did not agree on that either.
So I thought that I’d throw it out to the internet world…..
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Section 8 of the Industrial Relations Act, 1990 defines a strike as ‘a cessation of work by any number or body of workers acting in combination or a concerted refusal or a refusal under a common understanding of any number of workers to continue to work for their employer done as a means of compelling their employer, or to aid other workers in compelling their employer, to accept or not to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment.’
