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Second worker secures payment after unexpected closure of 'cash-for-visas' company
Summary
The Workplace Relations Commission has upheld a statutory redundancy claim by Brian McCarthy against Huawen Foundation Ltd, awarding him approximately €3,000. The adjudicating officer found that the company, which promoted Irish residency visas to international property investors, closed unexpectedly without providing for redundancy. Mr. McCarthy, who served as an applicant in this hearing, was employed from March 2019 to April 2021, meeting the 104-week eligibility threshold. The company failed to appear to defend the claim at the adjudication hearing on 7 April. This decision follows a separate March ruling where Huawen Foundation was ordered to pay €12,400 to former director Daoquan Zhang for breach of the Payment of Wages Act after leaving him unpaid for four months. Huawen Foundation is wholly owned by Kai Dai, chief executive of Kylin Prime Group. The company recently changed its registered office from St Stephen's Green in Dublin to the Nuremore Hotel & Country Club in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. The Commission's decision confirms Mr. McCarthy's entitlement to redundancy payments under the Redundancy Payments Acts based on his service duration and salary.
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What: Report matter: Second worker secures payment after unexpected closure of 'cash-for-visas' company. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
When:
- 7 April Hearing Or Sentence
- 25 March 2019 Other
- 1 April 2021 Other
- November 2020 Other
- February 2021 Other
- 2022-07-11 Publication
Why: The company, which previously offered investment opportunities under the Department of Justice's Irish Immigrant Investor Programme, did not appear in order to defend Mr McCarthy's claim at an adjudication hearing on 7 April this year. CNI source report
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