Airport security man demoted for kissing colleague should get job back, says WRC
Supervisor was demoted from €46,000 a year post and placed on a final written warning after two incidents on successive days
Workplace Relations Commission
Schoolbook rep in Sligo was informed of redundancy when wife read him email while he was in sick bed, WRC told
Publisher says Sligo-based salesman and another rep were being made redundant due to the company incurring losses
Money to pay Reserve Defence Forces members ran out due to recruitment ‘surge’
Departmental documents show officials realised they did not have the money to pay reservists for part of 2024
Founder of breast cancer clothing firm wins €85k after salary stopped
Problems with Theya Healthcare, the brand she established a decade ago, began after ‘aggressive takeover’ in 2023
Manager who said ‘abusive’ boss slashed his hours and called him a dog awarded €8,000
Company failed to lodge wages for worker after relationship broke down just a few months into new venture
Beauty salon must pay €1,500 to Traveller mother and daughters for discrimination
Woman told equality hearing how business would ‘only accept cash’ in advance from her for treatments
Worker forced to retire at 65 awarded €18,000 by Labour Court
Deepak Fasteners turned down request from 45-year veteran to stay on for one year until he reached State pension age
Agency nurse’s two complaints alleging penalisation rejected by Labour Court
Gerard Foy had reported a colleague for pouring water over a patient at the residential facility
Mechanic wins WRC order for €5,400 in unpaid wages against motor garage employer
WRC rejects claim from employer that it only owed worker an apprentice rate of €4.75 an hour for three months of employment
Call centre worker who mistakenly believed she had put customer on hold loses unfair dismissal case over abusive language
Telephonist said she thought she had put call on hold before using the phrase ‘f***ing b***h’
WRC orders Tesco to rehire worker who was sacked last year after calling a manager ‘useless’
Workplace Relations Commission rejects Siptu application that Tesco be liable to pay back wages from point of dismissal
Senior X executive concedes 48-hour window for Twitter staff to decide future was ‘not ideal’
Labour Court hearing X appeal of €550,131 award by Workplace Relations Commission to former senior manager in social media group’s Dublin office
Paramedics to vote on proposal for ending extended dispute at National Ambulance Service
Ballot to take place on deal providing basic pay rises of more than 20% in return for work practice-changes and loss of premium payments
OPW spent €17,000 on consultants for committee hearings, more than any other State body
Spending data from 2021 to last month shows OPW spent over €17,000 last year as it faced rolling controversies
Ice cream parlour worker pestered for dates by colleague gets €5,000 for sexual harassment
Trinity student who worked for Spilt Milk complained after boss repeated comments from her aggressor to another staff member
Twitter challenges €550,000 WRC award to former Dublin-based manager it says took ‘enhanced opportunity’ to depart job
Labour Court hears former Twitter executive is over €16,000 out of pocket each month since failure to sign Musk’s ‘hard core’ email saw his ousted
Landmark ruling against RTÉ as tribunal finds Fair City photographer was not a freelancer
Alleged misclassification of media workers by RTÉ is a major legacy issue
Chef working for Camile restaurant awarded €39,000 by WRC after dispute over pay and time off
Dispute started when he was told he was being moved from Cork to Dublin after trying to claim €308 sick pay
Orders against security firm top €140,000 as WRC blasts “blatant flouting” of pay rules
Security officer is 16th worker to win employment rights claim against BGS Security
‘Burned out’ saleswoman wins €15,800 for constructive dismissal
WRC rules that international lingerie brand repudiated her contract of employment by failing to address grievances
Nail bar worker wins €1,000 for unfair dismissal
WRC finds worker dismissed without any proper procedures
WRC hearing abandoned after adjudicator says witness giving evidence from moving train not ‘satisfactory’
Case involved South East Technological University Student Union, which is subject to a complaint under the Payment of Wages Act
Recycling depot worker who got ‘aggressive’ after remarks about Pope loses challenge to sacking
Seamus Behan said he was furious with Liberties Recycling colleague after his religious beliefs were insulted during row
Garda raid on home of award-winning curry restaurant owner finds bank card in worker’s name
Chef says he did not come to work after alleged threat by owner to have him deported back to Pakistan
Former Bohemian FC coach David Henderson is awarded €26,000 after ‘ruthless, sham’ redundancy
League of Ireland club sharply criticised by Workplace Relations Commission for ‘grossly fabricated allegations’
Ex-head of UN migrant office in Dublin ‘reassigned because of her behaviour in Ireland’
Bureau tells WRC it is invoking diplomatic immunity in response to constructive dismissal claim
DHL ordered to pay redundancy over transfer requiring five-hour work commute
Warehouseman gets €18,000 after WRC finds that relocation offer after logistics group closed a Dublin site was ‘not reasonable’
Ex-TD Violet-Anne Wynne says she cannot pay rent and is depending on goodwill
Wynne asked in court to substantiate claim she has no income to pay off €6,500 debt to ex-office worker
Employee sacked after HR chief recorded him on phone call wins €10k for unfair dismissal
Worker was sacked when a recording of him venting his ‘frustrations’ to the company’s human resources chief was sent to the CEO months later
University Hospital Limerick accused of laughing at patient in wheelchair
Treatment and behaviour ‘unacceptable’, says HSE but Workplace Relations Commission complaint dismissed due to passage of time
Receptionist called a ‘lazy b***h’ by co-worker says apology wasn’t ‘genuine’
Employer says it made ‘strenuous efforts’ to resolve the formal grievance
Nearly €35,000 owed to staff left ‘in the lurch’ by Shanahan’s on the Green closure
Some senior waiters were making €1,000 a week or more while working full-time hours
Power struggle led to corporate watchdog’s garda roles not being filled
Chief executive claimed ‘unprecedented unwillingness to accept decisions’
Sacked Irish Rail worker who said he defied orders in bid to avert crane accident fails to win job back
Employee wins €12,000 at Workplace Relations Commission after colleague’s foot was injured in incident
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