Party was not aware of WRC case against Dún Laoghaire-based Juliet O’Connell until it received a press query on Friday
Party was not aware of WRC case against Dún Laoghaire-based Juliet O’Connell until it received a press query on FridayThe Labour Party said Cllr Juliet O'Connell had resigned from the party after being ordered by the Workplace Relations Commission to pay more than €11,000 to a former employee.
Ms O’Connell was found to have underpaid a Bolivian seamstress, who said she resigned out of fear of being deported, by thousands of euro when compared to the salary set out in a job offer letter used to support the woman’s work visa application.
The worker’s role was described as a “business development interior designer” with a base salary of €30,000 in a job offer letter from her employer, which Ms Oropeza-Vedia submitted in support of a work permit application in December 2020. Ms O’Connell, who appeared before the tribunal as respondent-in-person, said she had documents which would show the complaints were “without substance” but that she had not brought them to the hearing last August.
In her decision, adjudicator Catherine Byrne said that while Ms O’Connell’s firm was already subject to a direction to pay €4,800 to the worker on foot of the WRC inspection, nothing had been paid as Ms Oropeza-Vedia sought to have the entire matter be dealt with by adjudication.
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