The WRC u told Independent College Dublin its practice of deducting 8 per cent of wages to fund annual leave must cease immediately.
A Dublin college has been ordered to end a “bizarre and unlawful scheme” of deducting employee wages to purportedly fund their annual leave entitlements.
In a written decision, the Workplace Relations Commission awarded a part-time lecturer at Independent College Dublin 10,000 after finding the school’s stated policy of deducting 8 per cent of pay to fund annual leave payments was was unlawful.
The WRC upheld Sharon Roche Morrissey’s complaint under the Organisation of Working Time Act and told Independent College Dublin its practice of deducting 8 per cent of wages to fund annual leave must “cease immediately”.
Evidence was submitted stating that the deduction had applied to “all lecturers”.
“Whether [it] originated in a sleight of hand device to reduce the respondent’s financial commitment to the complainant (or other employees), or simple error, it is a serious breach,” adjudicating officer Pat Brady wrote in a decision published on Wednesday.
Ms Morrissey, who lectures in mediation and conflict resolution, told a hearing last month that her working week varied but that she had been hired in September 2019 to work 12.5 hours a week.
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