Workplace Relations Commission (WRC)<\/a> on foot of statutory complaints against CPD Ventures Ltd, trading as Yung Medical Aesthetics under the Payment of Wages Act 1991 and the Employment Equality Act 1998. <\/p>\nNeil Brehony of Ormonde Solicitors, who appeared for Dr Coughlan, submitted that his client agreed as part of a December 2023 founder agreement for the respondent company to leave a senior post in the public health system and work for the firm as an employee. <\/p>\n
Mr Brehony told the WRC that during his client\u2019s involvement with the company, \u201cdisputes\u201d arose regarding its management, the control of a social media account, and commission payments to his client. <\/p>\n
Mr Brehony submitted his client was entitled to commission equivalent to a 30% split of revenue on procedures he had carried out personally \u2013 \u20ac117,208 of the \u20ac390,696 in revenue generated by the firm. <\/p>\n
Dr Coughlan only received \u20ac30,600 before June 2024, leaving \u20ac86,608 \u201coutstanding\u201d, Mr Brehony said. <\/p>\n
He went absent on certified sick leave in August last year due to \u201cstress and depression\u201d, the tribunal heard. <\/p>\n
The tribunal heard that Dr Coughlan was also removed as a company director and subjected to a threat of legal action in relation to one of his own Instagram accounts. <\/p>\n
Dr Coughlan later resigned on the basis of alleged constructive dismissal, citing the failure to pay the commission and other matters. <\/p>\n
Adjudication officer Gaye Cunningham noted in her decision that the company was \u201cin liquidation\u201d when the case came before her in July. A representative of the liquidator, Chelsea Gough, was in attendance, but \u201cno evidence was proffered\u201d, Ms Cunningham said. <\/p>\n
Ms Cunningham upheld Dr Coughlan\u2019s payment of wages claim and ordered the company to pay him \u20ac86,608 for \u201closs of earnings\u201d. <\/p>\n
Addressing the equality claim, she wrote: \u201cNot only did the respondent fail to engage with the complainant, it actually threatened him regarding his \u2018fiduciary duties\u2019 and removed him from his position as a director,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is uncontested that the complainant suffered from stress and depression. This condition arose because of the respondent\u2019s failure to pay him in comparison to payments [to] contractors,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n
She found Dr Coughlan had been denied reasonable accommodation for this condition and that he had been discriminated against on disability grounds in breach of the Employment Equality Act 1998. <\/p>\n
She awarded him a further \u20ac5,000 for the breach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A leading cosmetic doctor has secured an order for more than \u20ac90,000 in unpaid salary and compensation after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-97698","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-workplace-relations-commission"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97698","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=97698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}