Salesforce ordered to pay €1,000 after missing deadline on remote-work request

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The Workplace Relations Commission ordered Salesforce to pay recruiter Thomas Farrell €1,000 after the company missed the statutory four-week deadline to respond to his request for remote work. The WRC said the delay was minor but found the company had given no compelling reason for missing the deadline.

The award was limited to the late response. The adjudication officer accepted Salesforce’s position that he could not consider the substance of its decision to reject Farrell’s request, and RTÉ’s later review described Farrell’s case as the first and only ruling awarding compensation for a breach of the remote-work request legislation.