[Thomas J Stamp]

you cant deduct pay on a non strike day if you have already not paid them for a strike day, that's illegal for a start under the payments of wages act.

I was listening to the end of the pat Kenny show today and they were talking about it, and there is some confusion about the sick pay being stopped. There is a difference of belief out there (which is all it is till we actually see a luas drivers contract) that the sick pay scheme is open to suspension if there is a culmative workforce wide usage over a certain % of days. If so, whoever negotiated that for the workers (probably SIPTU) is a cretin. All such benefits and entitlements should accrue individually and be governed individually not globally. If someone who has never gone sick now has to, they're screwed (if this is true, SIPTU says it isn't and therefore illegal).

You do wonder, again, where TD are getting the money for the fines (about a million) and to fund the operating losses from, since they say they have only the fee they were paid by the Gov to run the service as their only source of income.