Worker awarded €67,500 for repeated late salary payments by Cork firm

The WRC found a “fundamental breakdown” in the employment relationship after repeated problems with pay.

The WRC found the worker acted reasonably by resigning and was entitled to consider himself constructively dismissed.

An employee who was repeatedly paid late by his Cork employer has been awarded €67,500 after the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) found that the failure to pay his wages on time amounted to constructive dismissal.

In a decision, the WRC found that pay was a fundamental term of the employee’s contract and that the repeated failure to pay him in accordance with that contract amounted to a fundamental breach.