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WRC recommends €9,500 for worker left unpaid after return-to-work clearance

By Orla Quinn

Workplace Relations Commission ·

The WRC recommended that a public sector body pay an administrative worker €9,500 as full and final compensation for unfair treatment. The recommendation was dated 4 April 2018. The worker had been on sick leave for a lengthy period. The respondent said her former post had been filled and that it contacted about seven units to find another role; she declined one possible placement because it was a considerable distance away. The adjudicator found she had no right to return to that specific post, but that the respondent had a duty to pay her once its nominated occupational health specialist certified her fit to return.

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