The National Employment Rights Authority released its quarterly report yesterday. It’s main sectoral focus has been on catering, retail, cleaning and construction.
Here are the main findings:
- To date in 2009 NERA Inspectors have carried out a total of 18,273 calls, interviews and inspections and unpaid wages
due to employees totalling €1,474,650 were recovere. - There were 3,001 inspections related to the Organisation of Working Time.
- 47% of the above resulted in a reported breach. That’s nearly 1,500 companies reported to be in breach this year alone.
- So far this year NERA referred 61 cases to its solicitors for prosecution.
- NERA dealt with over 112,600 telephone enquiries during the period January to September
2009. This is an increase of over 37% on the same period in 2008. Over 8,800 email enquiries were dealt with
during the same period. The most requested information categories continue to be redundancy, holiday/public
holidays, terms of employment and payment of wages.
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