Waterford Castle Hotel and Golf Resort. Bernadette Walsh claims she was unfairly dismissed from the hotel, which is owned by her brother, Seamus Walsh.
A well-known businessman persuaded his sister to leave a high-paying job to work at his luxury Waterford hotel, only for the resort to dismiss her after she asked for a raise to bring her pay above the minimum wage, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has heard.
Bernadette Walsh, the sister of Waterford-born businessman Seamus Walsh, told the commission that she left a job in the Bahamas paying 100,000 a year to start work at the Waterford Castle Hotel and Golf Resort on a salary of 16,000 per annum.
Mr Walsh, who lives in Melbourne, Australia, bought the hotel from the National Asset Management Agency in 2015, for a reported 6 million. It sits on a private island with an 18-hole golf course on 310 acres east of the city, surrounded by the Suir river.
Standard rooms at the hotel retail at 227, according to the website Booking.com. In 2016, it was listed in the top 10 best hotels in the world in the Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards.
Ms Walsh alleges she was unfairly dismissed in September 2019. She also alleged non-payment of overtime, breaches of the Organisation of Working Time Act and failure to provide a valid contract.
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