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Recruitment firm CPL has confirmed that it is investigating allegations that some of the staff hired by HSE to carry out contract tracing work had not been paid for more than a month.
Previously in the Dáil, Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett raised the situation of the 15 contact trackers assigned by CPL to work for the HSE at the UCD contact tracing center in Dublin.
He said they had been employed for six weeks and claimed that they had not been paid for the past four weeks despite working on the front line, and that they signed the Pandemic Unemployment Payment to do so.
He said staff who were critical to contact tracing to stay ahead of Covid-19 had no income to pay bills, and accused the government of trying to fight the virus on the basis of exploitation and cheap labor. .
He also reiterated allegations related to a previous group of workers who he said had zero-hour contracts.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said that the HSE took up this issue and promised to follow up on the situation, saying there was no agenda for not paying people.
Tonight, responding to RTÉ’s inquiries, CPL said that this issue related to part of its contact tracing staff had been brought to its attention today.
He confirmed that he was investigating the matter “as a matter of urgency” and speaking directly with employees to resolve it quickly.
CPL said that as Ireland’s leading recruiting and staffing solutions company employing nearly 13,000 people, it takes its responsibilities as a primary employer, including paying all of its employees promptly and correctly, very seriously.
“Our contact tracing teams are employed on 11 month specific purpose contracts and are hired to work 37 hours per week or part time as agreed.
“Our process is to pay promptly when we receive authorized timesheets from our client companies,” he said.
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