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Fri 12 Dec 2009Sunday work payment by restaurants criticised
EXTRA LABOUR costs for Sunday opening of restaurants was unsustainable, Minister for Tourism Martin Cullen has said.
“We have all moved to a seven-day week, so we will have to renegotiate this across the entire workforce to remain competitive,” he added. “It will have to come to the next step and I hope that by negotiation in the near future it will be seen as a normal rotation of whatever a 40-hour week is. That is the way it has to be.”
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