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WRC Orders Re-Engagement of Driver Forced to Retire at 70 – Mandatory Retirement “Highly Likely” to Cause Him Financial Hardship
In Tom Ronan v An Garda Síochána (ADJ-00047174), the Complainant brought a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission (the “WRC”) under the Employment Equality Acts, claiming that he was discriminated against when he was forced to retire at 70. The Adjudicator, Brian Dalton, found that the Complainant was discriminated against on the ground of age, and […]
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Tech workers who had salaries withheld awarded over €45,000
Indian couple awarded over €45,000 after working unpaid in Dublin. Crushell & Co Solicitors represented the workers in successful claims against CleanData Limited.
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Tooth, Trust, and Termination: A Dentist’s Dive into Dismissal Dilemmas.
Cruel dismissals in dentistry reveal an underbelly of workplace tensions, urging both practitioners and staff to navigate employment intricacies with care and fairness.
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Red Cow Hotel to pay waiter €12,500 after general manager repeatedly called him ‘Chico’
Filipe Ongaro told the Workplace Relations Commission he was so upset by the repeated use of the term that he could not work his shift the following day
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Pepsi worker devastated at being forced to retire at 65 gets €40,000 in age bias case
Pat Cassidy’s Siptu representative said the commission has ordered that the company and union enter discussions on the implementation of a code of practice on longer working.
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Force Majeure Leave – was your presence indispensable?
Generally, an employee needs at least one years’ service with their employer to bring an unfair dismissal claim to the Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”). However, there are exceptions to this general rule.
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UPS must pay former manager €75,000 over dismissal after 33-year career
The Irish arm of delivery giant UPS has been ordered to pay a former senior manager €75,000 for his discriminatory dismissal.
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Unfair Dismissal: Workplace Relations Commission Awards €15k to Man Accused of Being Drunk at Work
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ruled on a recent unfair dismissal case. A man who had been drinking alcohol just hours before starting work and subsequently lost his job has been unfairly dismissed according to the WRC.
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Employment: Dismissal and Redundancy in Ireland
Discontinuing Employment
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Sims fertility clinic ordered to pay former employee €23k compensation over unfair dismissal
The Sims Clinic told the WRC that it made Ms Murphy redundant after it suspended its Egg Donation Programme following the outbreak of Covid-19
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Design engineer fired over stammer awarded €15,000 in compensation
A Design Engineer for an agricultural machinery manufacturer who was dismissed over his stammer has been awarded €15,000 in compensation.
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€10,000 compensation recommended for woman dismissed for not returning to office due to effects of Covid enforced creche closure
A sports firm here dismissed a credit controller after she could not return to the workplace following a Covid-19 enforced closure of the creche that cared for her two children.
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