‘Pony up’: RTÉ worker got 103pc pay rise in ‘administrative error’
RTÉ campus at Donnybrook. Stock image
A tribunal has declined to enforce the terms of an RTÉ worker’s employment contract after the State broadcaster admitted doubling her salary by mistake.
The Workplace Relations Commission has ruled that the broadcaster acted unlawfully by failing to pay the worker, Mary McLoughlin, the salary set out in her contract of employment – but made a nil award on foot of the breach of the Payment of Wages Act 1991.
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