{"id":183631,"date":"2025-12-09T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183631\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:43:09","slug":"businessman-behind-e120-an-hour-padel-lessons-sent-threatening-texts-to-coach-in-pay-dispute-wrc-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/183631\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman behind \u20ac120-an-hour padel lessons sent \u2018threatening\u2019 texts to coach in pay dispute, WRC hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image of a Padel court. Photo: Getty images.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4b6927ae-d932-44a6-8456-570d0170505d.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)\">Stock image of a Padel court. Photo: Getty images.<\/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)\">An entrepreneur charging customers \u20ac120-an-hour for padel and pickleball lessons sent \u201cintimidating\u201d texts to a coach left short on his wages when he was let go due to low demand, a tribunal has found.<\/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)\">In the texts opened to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) businessman William McGlade, founder of House of Padel in Dublin, accused the coach of \u201clying about the job you\u2019re doing\u201d, \u201cmanipulation of your worth\u201d, and told him: \u201cYou\u2019re going about this the wrong way if you want to coach padel in Dublin in Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock image of a Padel court. Photo: Getty images. An entrepreneur charging customers \u20ac120-an-hour for padel and pickleball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-183631","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\/183631","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=183631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}