NUIG staff member paid 91 thousand euro while on leave from role

Galway Bay fm newsroom – A staff member at NUI Galway was paid 90 thousand euro while absent on grounds that did not meet the university’s own rules for payments for sabbatical leave.
The details were presented along with the college’s financial statements for the year to the end of last September.
The person who received the 90 thousand euro while absent from the college is one of an unknown number of people with whom NUIG concluded employment-related settlements.
According to today’s Irish Examiner, the settlements cost NUI Galway 134 thousand euro, including severances.
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