Liam Cuffe awarded €2,627 for unpaid Sunday premium

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Reverend Liam Cuffe was awarded €2,627 by the Workplace Relations Commission for St Vincent’s University Hospital’s failure to pay a Sunday premium, reported on 14 November 2024. The breach concerned Sunday work at the Dublin hospital; the reports do not give a hearing or decision date.

Adjudicator Aideen Collard found the hospital had contravened the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. She directed compensation limited to Cuffe’s economic loss in the six months before he lodged his complaint on 6 November 2023, citing uncertainty over the contractual provision and the timing of the hospital’s payments.