Hotel ordered to pay waiter €7,000 over unpaid tips and unfair dismissal

A State workplace watchdog has recommended that a hotel pay €7,000 compensation to a waiter over unpaid tips and for his unfair dismissal.

In the case, Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudicator, Catherine Byrne stated the worker said that he was suspended for making a complaint over unpaid tips and his wages were stopped.

Ms Byrne stated: “While he could have raised a grievance before he resigned, it seems to me that, based on how he was treated for making a complaint about the distribution of tips, his efforts to raise a grievance would have met with little success.”

Ms Byrne added: “I accept that the worker had to leave his job, and I note the failure of the employer to respond to this claim.”

In her anonymised determination, Ms Byrne stated that the worker said that he received more in tips than he earned in wages and the employer did not contradict the worker’s version of events.

Payslips

Ms Byrne stated that the worker’s payslips show that, before he was…

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