WRC lacks jurisdiction over school coach’s employment-terms complaint

The Workplace Relations Commission ruled it could not hear Benjamin Aled Hughes’s complaint that Teresian Junior School failed to provide written terms of employment, finding he was not an employee. Adjudication Officer Monica Brennan dated the decision 8 July 2026. The school argued Hughes operated an independent coaching business and could arrange substitutes. The officer found he had arranged and paid substitute coaches, so personal service was not required; she also found the wider circumstances did not establish an employer-employee relationship. No award was recorded.