not charging staff full price forced to resign and not getting paid for work done

The implications are that she could be arrested. Now the likelihood of the shop calling the gardai, the gardai actually willing to investigate this and the DPP willing to prosecute are all to for discussion. In terms of the gardai willing to investigate and the DPP will to prosecute, I'd say very very slim.

If the shop withhold her wages and holiday pay, they are also breaking the law so your daughters bargaining position is quite strong.

I'd certainly be sending an email asking why she hasn't received her wages and holiday pay and see what they say.

Let the Hare sit . Does she really need to risk starting her working life with a record for theft hanging over her . Not that I think the employer is right . Swallow it and behave in her next job after her education finishes .

She is entitled to her holiday money at 8% of hours worked and any outstanding wages. The shop is entitled to prosecute her for theft.

You feel she has a case for the WRC. Maybe you do, but they absolutely have the right to prosecute your daughter and label her a thief.

She shouldn't have been asked to resign she was a young teenage girl in her 1st job, did the other staff say to her such and such before you used to give us discounts etc. its not that black and white, she should have been giving a written warning and named staff who were given discounts so manager could chase them up for the monies they owed.

Secondly get her to print off all her payslips since she started & go to citizens advice who will calculate her holiday & bank holiday pay due.

Then when you have that done go to the guards explain situation and that they threatened her with legal action unless she resigned & find out what would've happened to her as an example this is for your peace of mind I doubt any judge would've throw the book at her.

Next step would be a employment solicitor to send registered letter demanding holiday pay & last weeks wages be paid with immediate effect or you will be taking a case with the WRC.

I've worked in retail and hospitality for 30 years as have most of my friends. I've seen this happen dozens of times and never seen anybody go to the cops let alone be prosecuted. Her wages are owed send an e mail requesting them, they will pay and that'll be the end of it. The talk here of prosecutions and gardai is just fanciful and borderline trolling.

Common practice by staff in the job with the others only receiving a warning sounds like your daughter was made an example of. T

the staff underpaying for lunch knew what they were at too like… why was your daughter singled out?

Giving another staff member a discount on lunch. Its not theft as she did not gain from it, but would be seen as dishonest.

If it was a first offence and done without malice, a warning combined with a memo to all staff that anything other than agreed discounts would be seen as gross misconduct and a dismissal offence would be the appropriate action.

I would certainly write to them asking for pay and holiday pay.

A good way is for a parent to attach a cover note to say - please see attached a letter from my daughter. I would hope this delayed payment and holiday pay @ 8% of hours worked as advised by the WRC would be settled in the next 7 days rather than "mary" take the issue to the WRC on an official basis. They have informed me that based on the facts presented they would find against you.

My guess is payment will arrive very quickly as getting paperwork for the WRC and also a possible inspection for holiday hours, bank holiday payment, Sunday premium etc, can be very onerous.