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Real estate giant ordered to pay worker €78k after 'serious contravention' of TUPE agreement
Summary
A Workplace Relations Commission official found that CBRE GWS (Ireland) Ltd had committed a 'serious contravention' of a TUPE agreement by reducing Aideen O'Regan's redundancy package from six weeks' pay per year of service to the statutory minimum. O'Regan, who had worked for Thompson Reuters since 1995 and transferred to CBRE in 2015, was due an enhanced redundancy package under the TUPE agreement. However, the company relied on a UK-based agreement that included a five-year cap on the enhanced redundancy terms, which did not apply to Irish employees. O'Regan was informed of the reduction in her redundancy package in 2020 and objected, citing the terms of the TUPE agreement. The tribunal upheld her complaint under the European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003, but rejected her parallel complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Real estate giant ordered to pay worker €78k after 'serious contravention' of TUPE agreement. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
When:
- February 1995 Hearing Or Sentence
- 18 May 2014 Other
- September 2020 Other
- 30 October 2020 Other
- January 2020 Other
- April 2015 Other
- New Year's Day 2015 Other
- 2023-01-19 Publication
Why: The complainant's evidence was that she and the other worker were "worried about being transferred" because they were "older employees" and met with a HR officer to discuss the matter on 18 May 2014. CNI source report
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