WRC Dismisses Payment Of Wages Claim – Contractual Term Allowed The Respondent To Deduct Costs Associated With Failure To Provide Notice

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WRC Dismisses Payment of Wages Claim – Contractual Term Allowed the Respondent to Deduct Costs Associated with Failure to Provide Notice

posted 2 years ago

In Brigid Walsh v PV Generation Limited, the Complainant issued a complaint under the Payment of Wages Act, 1991 seeking reimbursement of outstanding salary that had been deferred due to the Covid-19 pandemic in circumstances where the Respondent had undertaken to reimburse any deferred salary.

An express written term of the Complainant’s contract of employment permitted the deduction from her termination pay of an amount equal to the costs of covering her duties during her notice period in the event of her failing to provide the Respondent with notice of resignation.

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