RTÉ to appeal misclassified worker rulings delaying cases by six months

While RTÉ has committed to reimbursing four years' retrospective social insurance contributions denied to its misclassified workers, it has not committed to back-paying pension payments and holiday entitlements.

RTÉ is to appeal a number of decisions by the Department of Social Protection asserting that employees should not have been labelled as self-employed.

The broadcaster has written to the employees concerned – in correspondence seen by the Irish Examiner – via its legal representatives, solicitors firm Arthur Cox, to say that the Department’s decision that the workers in question had been misclassified for an extended period of time, or bogus self-employed, will be taken to the Social Welfare Appeals Office (SWAO).