A bus driver was recently awarded the best part of €9,000 in an unfair dismissal claim against his former employer for gross misconduct. The employer, Blue Line Coaches Limited, trading as Nolan Coaches, claimed the driver used a racial slur in describing a Chinese person as “a fat Chinese c***”. But the WRC adjudicator, Kevin … Read more
Scrolling through my Twitter feed this morning I came across two interesting cases. Performance review triggers psychiatric illness/disability The first involved an employee who brought a successful claim for harassment on the grounds of disability. She had been subject to an unhappy performance review and was awarded €8,000 for the claim of harassment under the … Read more
Why was he jailed in the first place? This was the question that was left under one of the videos on my YouTube channel. Here is what I told him. 1. An employer is entitled to suspend an employee on full pay to carry out an investigation into allegations of misconduct. That’s what Wilson’s Hospital … Read more
Enoch Burke was dismissed yesterday from his employment as a secondary school teacher with Wilson’s Hospital School in Westmeath. Mr Burke can appeal this decision within ten days of the decision to terminate. The dispute has generated a great deal of publicity and media attention with frequent visits to the High Court. And those appearances … Read more
An unusual feature of the case involving Martin Browne and Egis Road & Tunnel Operations Limited is the fact that he was firstly issued with a final written warning arising from a “prank” but was dismissed summarily on appeal. Background Martin Browne was a Duty Manager in the Tunnel Control Room at the Dublin Port … Read more