{"id":157588,"date":"2025-11-24T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157588\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:12:09","slug":"meat-plant-owner-went-to-home-of-female-worker-looking-for-a-massage-wrc-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157588\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat plant owner went to home of female worker looking for a \u2018massage\u2019, WRC hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The woman, who worked for Asba Meats in Co Clare was awarded over \u20ac40,000 for sexual harassment She said she was \u201coverwhelmed with fear\u201d and felt the businessman was \u201clooking for something else\u201dShe was relying on the firm for a work permit so she could work full-time and was \u201cdesperate for hours\u201d, WRC heard\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Workplace Relations Commission\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/acc316c6-1df8-4b11-95f9-b2fa4cb21504.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Workplace Relations Commission<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A part-time meat factory worker who said she was \u201coverwhelmed by fear\u201d when its owner came to her home and told her he wanted \u201ca head massage and some company\u201d has won over \u20ac40,000 for sexual harassment and employment rights breaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudicator has called it \u201cprofoundly troubling\u201d that the businessman exploited the financial vulnerability of the part-time worker, who was relying on his firm for a work permit, to advance an \u201cinappropriate agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman, who worked for Asba Meats in Co Clare was awarded over \u20ac40,000 for sexual harassment She&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-157588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}