A stable worker who said she was left short on her wages after working 60-hour weeks all last summer for a horse dealer has won over \u20ac4,500 for multiple employment rights breaches. <\/p>\n
Statutory complaints by the worker, Valentine Jevardat De Fombelle, under the National Minimum Wage Act 2000, the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 the Payment of Wages Act 1991 against Co Sligo<\/a>-registered TG Sporthorses Ltd have been upheld at the Workplace Relations Commission<\/a> (WRC). <\/p>\n Jevardat De Fombelle, a French national, told the tribunal she started on a one-week \u201ctrial\u201d on April 24th, 2025, and started paid work a week later on a stated wage of \u20ac1,200 every four weeks. She quit on August 15th that year, she said. <\/p>\n Jevardat De Fombelle\u2019s evidence was that she was regularly required to work over the legal maximum number of hours. <\/p>\n On average, she said, she worked 60 hours or more a week during her employment. <\/p>\n She said her employer had \u201ccould not keep up\u201d with weekly payments to her and began paying her on a monthly basis. <\/p>\n Over a three-month period, Jevardat De Fombelle told the tribunal, she had been paid 12 weeks\u2019 wages for 13 weeks\u2019 work. <\/p>\n Her case was that she was left short by \u20ac2,815 in wages. Jevardat De Fombelle said she had looked for her payslips in order to try to calculate her hourly pay, but had no reply. <\/p>\n Adjudication officer Valerie Murtagh noted in her decision, published on Tuesday that Jevardat De Fombelle\u2019s evidence was uncontested as the respondent company \u201cdid not attend the hearing\u201d. <\/p>\n Murtagh directed the respondent to pay Jevardat De Fombelle \u20ac2,815 under the Payment of Wages Act. <\/p>\n She awarded a further \u20ac500 in compensation for a breach of the National Minimum Wage Act, as the worker \u201cdid not receive the minimum hourly rate for the hours she worked\u201d, the adjudicator wrote. <\/p>\n Murtagh awarded \u20ac750 for excessive working hours and a further \u20ac500 for the failure to pay a Sunday premium, two breaches of the Organisation of Working Time Act. <\/p>\n The total awarded to Jevardat De Fombelle in the case was \u20ac4,565. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stable worker who said she was left short on her wages after working 60-hour weeks all last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,14169,6465],"class_list":["post-480209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sligo","tag-workplace-relations-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480209","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=480209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}