The WRC awarded a maintenance employee €842 after finding that his college employer’s unilateral reduction of his hourly rate amounted to a wage deduction. The decision was dated 15 November 2017. The college had paid €1,032.15 under an earlier WRC decision, but the officer said that figure was based on an erroneous calculation and the employee’s €16.56 hourly rate had not been restored. The new award was compensation; the Act did not allow the officer to order the college to restore the rate.