Renata Capala awarded €1,401.98 over missing employment particulars

Renata Capala was awarded €1,401.98 after the Workplace Relations Commission found that Maybin Support Services (Ireland) Limited Momentum Support had failed to provide written employment particulars. The decision was dated 15 July 2024. Capala said she had worked as a cleaning operative since 2006 without receiving a contract. The respondent said it had not received her contract from a previous employer when it took over her employment, but could not produce a copy at the hearing. The award was compensation equal to four weeks’ pay. Three other complaints were not well founded. The adjudicator found that Capala’s genuine health and safety concerns were not protected disclosures, and that she had provided no specific particulars to establish penalisation under health and safety law. Her equality complaint also failed because she identified neither particulars linked to protected characteristics nor a comparator—someone in a similar position treated more favourably.