Employee said he never received written terms of employment in the six years he was there
A worker who had just 18 days’ paid holidays in the course of six years at a Co Cavan piggery has won nearly €14,000 at the Workplace Relations Commission after his former employer was found liable for unpaid annual leave dating back over half a decade.
Mr Kulbaka’s case was that he never received written terms of employment in the six years he was there – and that the most annual leave he ever received in a full year was five days, despite a statutory entitlement to four weeks’ paid leave. At the hearing, company director Eamon Briody admitted that the firm left Mr Kulbaka short by €5.23 on his weekly pay toward the end of the employment, which fell into the tribunal’s usual jurisdiction of six months, leading to a liability of €36.61. He also conceded Mr Kulbaka was owed €90.40 in public holiday pay.
The company director’s position was that he “treated very fairly” and argued that the historic annual leave claims were “largely out of time”.
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