(1) An employee, or a trade union, staff association or excepted body on behalf of an employee, may present a complaint to a rights commissioner that an employer has contravened section 9 or 10 of the Act of 1977 and, if he, she or it does so, the commissioner shall give the parties an opportunity to be heard by him or her and to present to him or her any evidence relevant to the complaint, shall give a decision in writing in relation to it and shall communicate the decision to the parties.
(2) A decision of a rights commissioner under paragraph (1) of this Regulation shall do one or more of the following:
(a) declare that the complaint is or, as the case may be, is not well founded,
(b) require the employer to comply with the provision of the Act of 1977 concerned and, for that purpose, to take a specified course of action,
(c) require the employer to pay to the employee compensation of such amount (if any) as is just and equitable having regard to all of the circumstances, but n