ADJUDICATION OFFICER DECISION

Adjudication Reference: ADJ-00000745

Parties:

	Complainant	Respondent
Anonymised Parties	A Security Officer	A Security Company.

Representatives

Self Represented

Complaint(s):

Act	Complaint/Dispute Reference No.	Date of Receipt
Complaint seeking adjudication by the Workplace Relations Commission under section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1991	CA-00000882-001	16/11/2015

Date of Adjudication Hearing: Following a number of Adjournments and cancelled Hearings the final Hearing was on the 24/04/2017

Procedure:

In accordance with Section 41 of the Workplace Relations Act, 2015 and Section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1991 following the referral of the complaint(s)/dispute(s) to me by the Director General, I inquired into the complaint(s)/dispute(s) and gave the parties an opportunity to be heard by me and to present to me any evidence relevant to the complaint(s)/dispute(s).

1: Summary of Complainant’s Case:

The Complainant alleged that she had been employed by the Respondent for the period from 20^th October 2105 to the 11^th November 2015. She had never been paid for this period.

Following the hearing of the 24^th April 2017 the Complainant requested time to produce documentary evidence to substantiate her case. The Adjudication Officer allowed until the 23^rd June 2017 for the material to be produced.

2: Summary of Respondent’s Case:

The Respondents denied that the Complainant had ever been employed by their Company. Company records were produced in evidence.

3: Findings and Conclusions:

The Adjudication Officer allowed until the 23^rd June 2017 for the additional material from the Complainant to be produced. In effect the period was extended until the end of August 2017.

As of the 1^st September 2017 the evidence to support the Complainant’s case was not presented.

Accordingly the Respondent evidence of non employment of the Complainant is accepted and the claim is dismissed.

Decision:

Section 41 of the Workplace Relations Act 2015 and Section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1991 requires that I make a decision in relation to the complaint(s)/dispute(s) in accordance with the relevant redress provisions of the cited Acts.

Act	Complaint/Dispute Reference No.	Formal Decision /ref Section 3 above for detailed reasons.
Complaint seeking adjudication by the Workplace Relations Commission under section 6 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1991	CA-00000882-001	Claim dismissed.

Dated: 3 November 2017

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