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Wedding shop worker awarded €32k over failure to honour redundancy agreement

Summary

A wedding shop sales assistant, Natasha Comerford, has been awarded €32,000 in compensation by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) after her employer failed to honour an enhanced redundancy agreement. Comerford had worked for the business for 17 years, and her employment terms, including a redundancy package of five weeks' pay per year of service, were transferred from her previous employer under TUPE regulations in 2008. However, when she was made redundant in November 2020, she was only offered statutory terms of two weeks' pay per year of service. The WRC heard that her union, Mandate, had negotiated the enhanced redundancy package with the previous employer, and that all terms and conditions were to be honoured by the new employer. The respondent, Wedding List Solutions Limited, argued there was no evidence to support the claim for enhanced redundancy pay, stating Comerford was paid statutory redundancy in line with other employees.

Who, what, where, when and why

What: Report matter: Wedding shop worker awarded €32k over failure to honour redundancy agreement. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision

When:

• November 2020 Hearing Or Sentence
• July 2003 Other
• April 2008 Other
• March 2021 Other
• December 2019 Other
• 23rd May 2008 Other
• 2022-06-08 Publication

Topics

Stage Hearing Or Decision

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