Women seeking wages from rape crisis centre face wait

Three women seeking wages they claim are owed to them by a rape crisis centre will have to wait to find out if they’re successful because the name of their employer was incorrectly stated on a decision issued by a Rights Commissioner.

The Rights Commissioner ordered in Aug 2011 that they be paid thousands of euro in annual increments by the Sexual Violence Centre in Cork.

However, a legal team representing the centre, which is appealing the decision, told an Employment Appeals Tribunal yesterday that the order was wrong because the employer was actually Cork Rape Crisis Centre and not the Sexual Violence Centre, which it is sometimes referred to as.