IEThe Irish Times
I took a pay cut two years ago and it wasn’t put in writing. Can I demand it be restored?
Work Q&A: As well as salary restoration, I want to ask for a pay rise as compensation
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- #2844
- First seen
- 26 Aug 2026, 05:13 UTC
- Last checked
- 27 Aug 2026, 04:00 UTC
- Version history
- 2 versions
- Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata

- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 26 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Jack White
- Section
- Not supplied
Source-supplied excerpt
Work Q&A: As well as salary restoration, I want to ask for a pay rise as compensation
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I took a pay cut two years ago and it wasn’t put in writing. Can I demand it be restored?
Work Q&A: As well as salary restoration, I want to ask for a pay rise as compensation
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I took a 10% pay cut two years ago and it wasn’t put in writing. Can I demand it be restored?
Work Q&A: As well as salary restoration, I want to ask for a pay rise as compensation
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Interpretation layer
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Publisher categories are copied from source metadata. Machine signals report observable wording or format and do not determine truth, intent, ethics, or wrongdoing.
- machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
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Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #2714
- Observed
- 26 Aug 2026, 09:59 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 745,302 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt