John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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461. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a business in receipt of the Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme is obliged to pay a full wage to an employee should the employee be absent from work for a day or more. [9067/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Temporary Wage Subsidy scheme is administered by the Revenue Commissioners. Employment rights policy matters are the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

Statutory and contractual employment terms continue to apply in the normal manner during Covid-19. If an employee believes that there has been an unlawful deduction of their salary pursuant to the Payment of Wages Act 1991, he or she may refer a complaint to the independent adjudicator service in the Workplace Relations Commission, an independent office under the aegis of my Department.