September 2024
A marketing executive who said he “lost friends” for taking a workplace rights case against the operator of the Bingo Loco stage show has won €5,400 for unfair dismissal.
August 2024
A senior IT worker whose role was filled while he was absent due to a cancer diagnosis has been awarded €50,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission.
July 2024
It has been alleged that a bus company’s managers fired a driver because he made complaints about “seriously unsafe” vehicles before attempting to carry out a “self-styled deportation” on the migrant worker by booking him a flight home and trying to escort him to the airport.
May 2024
A major private coach operator has been accused of having “defective and dangerous public vehicles” by a lawyer acting for a whistleblower who claims he was penalised for raising his concerns.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0514/1449118-coach-operator-case-at-wrc/
April 2024
A well-known Dublin hotel has been ordered to pay a former restaurant manager €9,000 over its failure to call him back to work after the business reopened following its closure at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fintech entrepreneur Roy Zakka was accused of making “derogatory remarks about Irish people” by a former senior employee who has now won more than €90,000 in back pay and compensation for unfair dismissal.
December 2023
A banking professional who moonlighted for nearly 30 years “pulling pints” at a Dublin pub has been awarded €25,000 for the “heartless” and “completely unlawful” way he was dismissed by the family he had first come to work for in the 1980s.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/12/21/banker-moonlighting-as-barman-for-decades-awarded-25000-at-wrc/October 2023
A banking professional, who moonlighted for nearly three decades “pulling pints” at a Dublin pub, was unfairly sacked and denied severance pay because the bar owners “just didn’t want to pay him” his redundancy entitlements, his solicitor has alleged.
A firefighter who earlier this year was acquitted of drugs offences has resolved his High Court action aimed at preventing his employer from continuing internal disciplinary proceedings against him.
September 2023
The Irish Athletic Boxing Association has settled an employment rights dispute with its former high-performance director Bernard Dunne.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2023/0913/1405103-iaba-settle-employment-dispute-with-bernard-dunne/
June 2023
A dispute involving a software company whose investors include U2 drummer Larry Mullen and British comedian John Bishop has been resolved, the Commercial Court was told.
May 2023
A Limerick-based transport firm has been ordered to pay €109,040 to 11 drivers and helpers for their mass unfair dismissal concerning alleged “unscheduled and undocumented” alcohol deliveries to a Dublin pub.
The Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) is in “negotiations” with its former high-performance director Bernard Dunne over an employment rights claim he has lodged at the Workplace Relations Commission, the tribunal has been told.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/boxing/2023/0530/1386503-dunne-in-negotiations-with-iaba-over-dispute/
