WRC finds staff at Ciao Bella Roma on Parliament Street did not get shift breaks
A restaurant which was run with a “chronic, institutional failure” to honour shift breaks before the Covid-19 pandemic hit has been ordered to pay five former staff over €62,000 for multiple labour law breaches.
Chefs Daniele Vito Antonetti and Ioan Cosmin Maties, along with kitchen assistant Darius Radu Peicu, barman Antonio Fillipo Santoiemma and bookkeeper Sandra Maties, each complained of unfair dismissal and unlawful pay deductions, with the four men also alleging working time breaches.
Adjudicating officer Pat Brady wrote: “ was, according to his evidence, and to put it mildly, asked to leave without any satisfactory indication of what would become of promises that had been made to honour outstanding payments, to say nothing of their status as employees and the prospects of returning to work.”
“The breaches of the Organisation of Working Time Act were extremely serious and there was a chronic, institutional failure to honour the entitlement to breaks. As a measure of the gravity of the breach of the act I award the complainant €5,000 compensation,” Mr Brady wrote in his decision on Mr Antonetti’s case.
The tribunal found all five workers had been unfairly dismissed and awarded sums ranging from €720 in the case of Ms Maties to €7,500 in the case of Mr Peicu, for a total of €15,403.
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