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15.03.10
Fast food workers staged a protest today, claiming that measures designed to protect their pay and conditions are under threat. Restaurant owners say they are merely taking a legal case against the system which sets wages.
Restaurant workers staged a demonstration outside Supermac's O'Connell Street branch in Dublin today to highlight what they claim is an attack on their pay and conditions.
An industry group representing fast food restaurants is taking legal action against the current system of setting wages.
The employers are challenging the rights of the "Catering Joint Labour Committee" to set rates of pay and conditions.
Fast food workers say many of them are already struggling to survive and that they can't afford to have their wage protection rights targeted.
The Quick Service Food Alliance which represents the likes of Burger King, McDonalds and Supermacs said today that the case being taken in the High Court is not about lowering conditions of employment but rather about challenging the methods by which rates and conditions are set. The group claims the current system is unfair and unconstitutional.
The restaurants say there are already numerous pieces of legislation in place covering minimum pay and conditions but that the additional Joint Labour Committee system has contributed to job losses and a reduction in working hours.
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