Dundalk Institute Of Technology was ordered to pay Celine Walsh €1,500 after a Workplace Relations Commission adjudication officer found it had not kept adequate records of her work breaks. The decision was dated 20 March 2024.
Walsh said she had not been allowed to take her statutory 15-minute break. The officer found the Institute’s documents did not show the start and finish times of breaks each working day, as required, and upheld that complaint under the Organisation of Working Time Act.
The officer did not uphold Walsh’s other complaints. She alleged family status discrimination in a recruitment competition, saying a successful candidate was offered a 12-month contract while she went unpaid in July and August 2022. The officer found no evidence the candidate was chosen because of her family status. Walsh’s contract did not provide for pay in those months, so the wages were not properly payable.
Her fixed-term work complaint concerned holiday arrangements. She could not identify when her comparator had taken leave, and the officer found no evidence establishing whether the alleged breach fell within the statutory time limits. That complaint was found not well founded.