Telecoms giant Verizon was entitled to dock the bonus of a senior Irish employee, the Workplace Relations Commission has found. Photograph: C J Gunther / EPA
Telecoms giant Verizon was entitled to dock the bonus of a senior Irish employee for his involvement in his department’s use of an account with an outside company to buy gift vouchers for occasions like staff weddings or the birth of a child, a tribunal has ruled.
Peter Darcy, a senior director in construction procurement for the Verizon network in the United States, had brought a complaint under the Payment of Wages Act 1991 against Verizon Services Ireland Limited, accusing it of making an unlawful deduction.
The tribunal heard that Mr Darcy was one of a number of
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