{"id":26121,"date":"2025-09-17T01:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26121\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:45:08","slug":"security-firm-showed-blatant-disregard-for-workers-rights-as-guard-awarded-e45000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26121\/","title":{"rendered":"Security firm showed \u2018blatant disregard\u2019 for workers\u2019 rights, as guard awarded \u20ac45,000"},"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\">A WRC adjudicator said BGSS had shown a \u201cblatant disregard\u201d for workers\u2019 rights and placed its law-abiding competitors at a disadvantage by ignoring the employment regulation order (ERO) for the security industry\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758073508_782_5baf6f5f-2647-4771-bc8f-8c1b6f21ff3f.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<\/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 security guard who said he was left feeling \u201clet down and used\u201d after working unpaid shifts for a Dublin firm has been awarded compensation worth over 40 times the value of the wages he was denied.<\/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)\">The worker, Elly Kiprono Rop, was awarded \u20ac45,240 &#8212; two years\u2019 wages &#8212; on top of orders for \u20ac1,088 in pay unlawfully withheld from him and \u20ac1,200 for non-provision of contract while he was working for BGS Security Ltd (BGSS) in the summer of 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WRC adjudicator said BGSS had shown a \u201cblatant disregard\u201d for workers\u2019 rights and placed its law-abiding competitors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-26121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26121","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=26121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}