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A Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudicator has abandoned an employment rights hearing today after deciding it was not “satisfactory” that a defence witness had dialled in from a moving train.<\/p>\n

The South East Technological University Student Union (SETUSU) is subject to a complaint under the Payment of Wages Act 1991 by worker Kate Rellis, which was called on for hearing earlier via videoconference, but quickly adjourned.<\/p>\n

Adjudication officer Gaye Cunningham noted that the SETUSU president, Erin Foley, had joined the call from a car and that its welfare officer Lucy Kate Bosch was “on a train”.<\/p>\n

“While we say that our hearings are otherwise than in private\u2026 our hearings are not being held in public streets or transit. When you go off mute, I seem to be hearing other passengers in the train,” Ms Cunningham.<\/p>\n

“I apologise for the noise; I’m currently travelling to Galway for work at the moment,” Ms Bosch said.<\/p>\n

Ms Cunningham said: “I can hear a lot of background noise. I can\u2019t continue a hearing in the circumstances.”<\/p>\n

Ms Foley said she had not been president of the students\u2019 union during the period relevant to the complaint and that Ms Bosch had been “mentioned as a witness in the complaint”.<\/p>\n

“I do need her here,” she said of Ms Bosch.<\/p>\n

Ms Cunningham told the officers of the students\u2019 union: “You could have applied for a postponement. If a person is not available to take part in a hearing in what I\u2019d call a safe setting, I can\u2019t continue,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s not satisfactory that people are in a train where it\u2019s very noisy,” she added.<\/p>\n

Asked to comment, the worker, Ms Rellis, said: “I understand that it\u2019s not ideal to have members of the public in the background, I wasn\u2019t expecting that. I do agree, though I want to move forward today.”<\/p>\n

Ms Cunningham said her “strong feeling” was that it “would not be satisfactory to continue”.<\/p>\n

“You might as well be out on the main street,” she said to Ms Bosch.<\/p>\n

“You must be in a fairly safe setting, an office setting, on the next date. I\u2019d appreciate if the respondents would pay attention to the fact that you need to be in a reasonably formal setting. We\u2019ll resume as soon as we can,” the adjudicator said.<\/p>\n

She adjourned the matter pending a re-scheduled hearing “as soon as possible”.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudicator has abandoned an employment rights hearing today after deciding it was not “satisfactory” that a defence witness had dialled in from a moving train. The South East Technological University Student Union (SETUSU) is subject to a complaint under the Payment of Wages Act 1991 by worker Kate Rellis, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}