Not paid Expenses

Yes, Send them a Post Card - Not sure if you can get them any more but maybe in the post office - it's not an envelope just a card - on the back you write - That you want your expenses paid or you will take legal action - give your name and any other details.

If that then fails - send a Registered Letter that they have to sign for - in the letter outline the situation and tell them that legal action will be taken if no response is received.

Last option then is to go to the Local Citizens Advice Centre

https://centres.citizensinformation.ie/

If no help there then contact the small claims court via a solicitor and claim your expenses (plus the expenses that you have spent in getting this far)

Here is the page on the Citizens advice

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/courts-system/small-claims-court/

The problem may very well be that they are too big of a company to issue/use PayPal - send them your IBAN Bank details and tell them to transfer it to that.

Good Luck

So ironically I was kind of on the other side of this many years ago. Basically the team in the company I was working for was sponsoring some students in the local university, and I was handling the department expenses

Actually getting the money to them was basically impossible because (unsurprisingly) large companies aren't setup to drop cash into someone's bank account. They require stuff like invoicing and purchase orders

The reason they're using PayPal is probably because they can use a company credit card to get money into the recipient bank account

It took months to get it sorted, and frankly it felt a lot like it'd get you into trouble as an employee

So it's quite possible it's genuinely stuck in some approval process in the company

I'll be honest, I wouldn't trust anyone who advertises anything as "all expenses covered" unless they're paying on the spot. I'm not saying they scammed you, more that some middle managers made a promise before figuring out all the details

Send them a Revolut.me link for the amount due.

Send them an invoice. You'll get a simple template online.

Include an itemised breakdown of expenses, and copies of any receipts.

Give you personal details (name, address etc) and bank details again, and request payment within 15 days.

The problem isn't that the company is refusing to pay, they don't have a system to pay the OP. If the OP was still on payroll it would be paid, no one is going to risk their job to authorise the pay off the system.

Also as an FYI. The small claims procedure is a great consumer protection system. But getting a judgement for debt is easy in this country, getting a debt paid is nearly impossible if the debtor doesn't want to. Big companies regularly write off 4 figure debts here, in other countries you can be bankrupted for a few hundred Euro of debt.

A voucher might be much handier for them. One threat to the smalls claims court and they'll pay up.

Ireland is a small place. I'd think long and hard about threatening to take a company to court over unpaid expenses. There is an excellent chance that you encounter them again in your future career.

That may be true but after a year, they are being backed into a corner by the big company or those representing them. They are entitled to what they are owed.

Adding a supplier to a database is expensive and troublesome? ok. 🙄

@OP - send them the invoice. They owe you the money. How they figure out how to pay it is their problem, as is the fact that they've let it drag on this long.

Normally I call BS on this attitude, I've literally worked with one person who knew someone I knew from a previous job, and they were talking for all of 5 mins in a pub in the US

However, the pharma industry is very insular, you can work with the same person across 2 or 3 companies

While I agree that taking the company to court isn't the smartest idea, they should probably ask to have a call with their former manager to see what can be done. It would be more effective than monthly emails

Suppliers can be set up, and Purchase Orders can also be raised after an invoice is received. I do it every day.

Again, I'm not debating the technical feasibility of it, more whether it'll be entertained by the company. Finance departments in large companies will just flat out refuse anything outside their procedures

There's always an exception process, but it probably requires some very high level approval and I doubt a manager is going to solicit a VP on behalf of an intern they had a while back

As I've said, in my experience the way this was done was using the department credit card or expensing it as an employee expense through whatever system the company uses

Ahh, yeah. Built any bike-sheds lately? But thanks for the laugh.

OP - I'm convinced that getting your manager to pay you directly, from their own pocket, is the way to get paid. He'll find a way to expense it, but it won't be using any "invoice" you make.