Questioned today on the firm's failure to pay the sum, Cognito HRM chief executive Denis Coleman admitted four weeks' notice was due under the worker’s contract rather than the one week she got.The worker said she had been left"completely out of pocket" because on top of weeks-long payroll delays, the company had given her nothing in writing about her termination to support a claim for jobseeker's allowance.
Ms Horgan told the WRC that having already been told she was being"let go" from her €34,000-a-year job on 29 June 2023, the company informed her she would not get her wages for June that year."Despite numerous requests by email over two weeks Mr Coleman had failed to respond or supply me with any written communication on the situation or a letter of termination… which in turn left me unable to receive jobseeker’s allowance," she said.
She was eventually paid her final pay packet, with a sum for accrued holiday entitlements on 24 July that year -"almost a month late", she said. Adjudicator Úna Glazier-Farmer questioned Mr Coleman directly on the payment of notice under the worker's contract.