WRC rejects electrician’s apprentice-rate underpayment claim

The WRC found Sean O’Neill’s Payment of Wages complaint against Mick Flood Electrical not well founded. O’Neill said he was paid an apprentice rate before his apprenticeship was registered and sought back pay. The company said they intended an apprenticeship, and the registration delay was later corrected. The adjudicator found the apprentice rate was properly payable because backdated registration credited the period towards his apprenticeship. She rejected the underpayment claim and did not consider his claimed unemployment loss because that complaint had not been referred.