Mabs firm in leap year pay cut breach

The holders of the purse-strings for the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (Mabs) have been slammed for their “penny pinching” and ‘miserly’ leap year reduction on frontline workers.

Unite sector organiser Ed Thompson made the charge after the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) found a Mabs firm was in breach of the Payment of Wages Act and ordered it to repay all monies docked to two workers as a result of a 2016 leap year calculation.

According to Mr Thompson, the two workers are “delighted” and will receive between €140 and €160 each: “This was not about the money — it was about the principle.”