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Full coverage: Workplace Relations Commission

“We will make everything right”: Fintech vows to back pay staff

There are several live WRC cases taken by former Digisure (Ireland) Ltd staff who claim they were not paid wages for six months last year. The fintech’s founder told the commission last Friday that it intends to make everyone whole in the coming weeks as held-up funds are released to the company.

Niall Sargent
13th May, 2025 - 4 min read

After failing to secure a rescue package, it is the end of the road for Randridge

The engineering firm has gone into liquidation. It shrunk from 45 staff in 2023 to just 10 last year and hoped for big contracts and outside investment to save the business. They didn't come through.

Alice Chambers
21st Feb, 2025 - 2 min read

Randridge saved by “a slim margin” from liquidation… but only until the new year

The High Court has granted the Bray-based engineering firm a "tight" examinership. The company is betting on winning a €47m contract and securing outside investment in its attempt to avoid liquidation.

Alice Chambers
19th Dec, 2024 - 3 min read

Randridge International had a string of overseas offices. What has gone wrong?

Having initially opted for a low-key Scarp restructuring process, the Bray engineering firm is now seeking examinership. New documents shed light on the company’s financial difficulties.

Alice Chambers
28th Nov, 2024 - 2 min read

No pay, empty promises and system lockout: The global workers caught up in an Irish fintech’s fall from grace

Layer Digital Solutions abruptly let staff go last year amid financial problems. Contractors across the world have come forward with stories of the promise of a new financial future that never materialised.

Niall Sargent
9th Apr, 2024 - 9 min read

“That’s a big amount to me”: Former worker seeks €15,000 in unpaid wages from troubled fintech

Felicia Kiruba Rajasingh is the seventh former staff member to take a WRC case against Layer Digital Solutions Ltd. Orders against the fintech for unpaid wages stand at €150,000.

Niall Sargent
26th Mar, 2024 - 3 min read

Top production company ordered to pay up in latest union worker saga case

Metropolitan Films International Limited is currently appealing WRC awards against it to the tune of €430,000 for breaches of workers' rights. This tale’s origin story starts with corporation tax credits.

Niall Sargent
12th Mar, 2024 - 5 min read

No “personal vendetta”: Tech unicorn Workhuman wins unfair dismissal battle

After an initial administrative error, finance administrator Elizabeth Keating claimed that her selection for redundancy by Workhuman was personally motivated. Instead, the WRC has agreed with her employer that she lost her job as part of a genuine restructuring process.

Francesca Comyn
1st Mar, 2024 - 4 min read

C-suite officer dismissed over the phone wins WRC claim against failed AI start-up Altada

London-based GP Eugene O'Connor has been awarded compensation after winning an unfair dismissals claim against the would-be unicorn that collapsed into liquidation last year.

Francesca Comyn
31st Jan, 2024 - 4 min read

Failure to launch: How the pandemic wiped out the Irish dreams of a global payments company

Fondy was supposed to hit €36 million in sales in its first year in Ireland. Instead it was decimated and has effectively retreated from these shores. So what happened?

Rosanna Cooney
17th Feb, 2022 - 3 min read
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