A Leaving Cert supervisor claims his pay was unlawfully docked by more than €1,600 in a three-year row over mileage allowances because officials expected him to drive “cross country” on back roads to take the shortest possible route to the school he was posted to.
Daniel Murphy says he would have gotten stuck ‘behind silage traffic’ if driving to Kells on roads suggested by State Examinations CommissionDaniel Murphy told the Workplace Relations Commission: 'I don’t want to be driving on minor back roads where I could get stuck behind silage traffic in the month of June and endure long delays.' Photograph: iStock.
An official said the mileage claims were “excessive” and that Mr Murphy had been paid all the wages he was owed.La Rochelle have learned how to press all of Leinster’s buttonsMr Murphy, who gave an address in Monaghan, said he had some 30 years’ service as a supervisor and first took up the temporary work for the Leaving Cert exams at Kells Community School in 2021.
In 2021, the SEC paid him for 629km less than he travelled, which would have been worth €522 at €0.83 per kilometre, he said. He said he was left short by €550 in 2022 and €574.20 last year. He said his mileage claims from 2021 were still outstanding because the SEC never told him it was rejecting his internal complaint on the matter. He characterised the response he had from officials there as: “We’ll refer back to you; we’ll refer to higher management, going around in circles”.
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