WRC recovered over €1.5m in unpaid wages last year

WRC handled over 64,000 information and advisory calls

Alan Dillon, Minister of State for Employment, Small Business and Retail, and Audrey Cahill, Director General of the WRC.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) recovered €1,578,924 in unpaid wages in 2025, according to its annual report for 2025, published on Friday. 

The WRC found 1,775 case which were found to have contraventions of employment law during 2025. These cases involved 5,596 individual workplace inspection visits.