A FIRM which processes and packages soft drinks has claimed it should be excluded from a statutory wage deal because a pure fruit juice produced by it is not fizzy.
P Mulrine and Son (Sales), Donegal Road, Ballybofey, Donegal, has brought a High Court challenge to a Labour Court decision that 46 of its workers are covered by an employment regulation order providing for the statutory setting of wage levels for those in the aerated waters and wholesale bottling sector.
The Labour Court had erred in finding Mulrine’s juice product brought the company under the terms of the order as, to do so, such drinks had to contain sugar and/or be aerated, it is claimed.