Sharon Roche Morrissey awarded €10,000 over annual leave pay

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Sharon Roche Morrissey was awarded €10,000 at the Workplace Relations Commission after it found Independent Colleges Dublin unlawfully deducted pay to fund her annual leave; the decision is dated 29 March 2022.

The Commission ordered the college to comply with the Organisation of Working Time Act and stop deductions from her €80 hourly rate that purported to fund annual leave. The adjudicator found that the 8% withholding was not a lawful way to fund paid leave.

Morrissey worked as a lecturer at the college. Its decision records that she began employment in September 2019 and that the complaint concerned her annual leave entitlement.