{"id":93214,"date":"2025-09-29T19:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/93214\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:33:08","slug":"beauty-salon-in-dublin-ordered-to-pay-e11000-to-worker-paid-just-e5-an-hour-and-denied-tips-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/93214\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty salon in Dublin ordered to pay \u20ac11,000 to worker paid just \u20ac5 an hour and denied tips \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A beauty salon which held back thousands of euro in card tips left by customers for a beautician who was making effectively just over \u20ac5 an hour has been ordered to pay her more than \u20ac11,000 by an employment tribunal. <\/p>\n

The worker, Joselyn Moreira, was awarded the sum after her ex-employer, Good Place Beauty Ltd on South William Street in Dublin 2, was found in breach of the Payment of Wages Act 1991 and the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1995. <\/p>\n

Representing herself before the Workplace Relations Commission<\/a> (WRC) with the aid of a Spanish-language interpreter earlier this month, Ms Moreira, said she was a qualified veterinarian in her home country of Chile who had come to Ireland to learn English in 2024. <\/p>\n

She told the commission she took up work on November 9th 2024 at the south city salon after being offered \u20ac18 an hour at interview by its owner, Felipe do Couto. <\/p>\n

Ms Moreira said that from Monday to Friday during her time at the salon, she spent her mornings at school and then worked from 1pm to 8pm or 9pm in the evening, and from 9am to 9pm or 10pm on Saturdays. <\/p>\n

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She said she also worked for two hours on Christmas Day 2025. The pattern of six-day weeks continued until she quit on January 3rd 2025, she said. <\/p>\n

The complainant said she normally worked with one client an hour and that \u20ac10 was the minimum tip, but \u201csometimes considerably more\u201d. <\/p>\n

Ms Moreira also told the WRC that Mr do Couto had told her it would be \u201cbetter for her not to have a contract\u201d so that she could \u201cpay less tax\u201d. <\/p>\n

Adjudication officer Catherine Byrne wrote that she was satisfied the employer was on notice of the hearing, but noted his failure to attend. <\/p>\n

She noted that Ms Moreira\u2019s pay slips recorded that she was paid \u20ac780 for 52 hours\u2019 work at \u20ac15 an hour in November 2024 – and \u20ac975 for 65 hours\u2019 in December, plus \u20ac75 in \u201cXmas commission\u201d and \u20ac12.36 in tips. <\/p>\n

Ms Byrne wrote that Ms Moreira was a \u201ccredible witness\u201d and accepted on the basis of her uncontested evidence that she had worked 154 hours in November and 198 hours in December, along with another 10 hours in January 2025. <\/p>\n

It meant her pay averaged \u20ac5.06 an hour in November 2024. Ms Byrne accepted Ms Moreira\u2019s evidence that she was promised \u20ac18 at interview and had therefore been left short by \u20ac3 on the hours recorded on her pay slips. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe could not be expected to know how much was generated in tips or how the tips should have been shared with her. Based on her evidence\u2026 I estimate that she should have received \u20ac3,000 in tips,\u201d Ms Byrne added. <\/p>\n

Ms Byrne found the employer \u201cdid not pay the complainant wages\u201d worth \u20ac5,103 or the \u20ac3,000 in tips, in breach of the Payment of Wages Act 1991. <\/p>\n

She directed the salon management to pay Ms Moreira a net sum of \u20ac7,700 after ruling there had been an \u201cillegal deduction\u201d of \u20ac8,103 gross. <\/p>\n

Ms Byrne found further that Good Place Beauty Limited had breached the Terms of Employment (Information) Act 1994 after hearing Ms Moreira\u2019s evidence about her discussions with her employer about the contract. <\/p>\n

She awarded the claimant compensation of four weeks\u2019 wages, a sum of \u20ac3,312, for the breach, bringing the total tax-free sum due to Ms Moreira on foot of her complaints to \u20ac11,012. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beauty salon which held back thousands of euro in card tips left by customers for a beautician…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,80,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-93214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-work","13":"tag-workplace-relations-commission"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}