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Polish worker fails in discrimination action against Department of Health over 'expensive' Covid-19 tests
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The allegation was rejected by lawyers representing the department
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Irish speed van operators using time during monitoring to study for degrees and learn musical instruments
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Go Safe is contracted by the State to deploy its vans across the road network
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Supermarket chain Iceland ordered to pay €12k to Travellers in discrimination case at Irish store
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At the Workplace Relations Commission Adjudicator, Brian Dalton has ordered Iceland Stores Ireland Limited to pay each of the four €3,000 taking into account 'the emotional upset and public embarrassment experienced'
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Worker sacked by Dunnes Stores after being charged over alleged sex act in rival supermarket loses unfair dismissal case
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Gerard McVeigh’s complaint of unfair dismissal 'is not well founded', the WRC has found
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Irish executive fired after posting 'political' comment on LinkedIn awarded €20,000
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The WRC ruled that the dismissal of David Shanahan was 'substantially and procedurally unfair'
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Irish cinema worker sacked after playing wrong Matrix film to 'angry' movie-goers
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Omniplex (Cork) Limited dismissed Joseph Callaghan with 28 years service after accusing him of trying to cover up his mistake
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Mr Price ordered to pay €20,000 in compensation for discriminating against former worker
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Elena Balan told the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that she had been 'frozen' in shock after learning that she had been fired weeks before she was scheduled to return to her job after maternity leave
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Female architect at Government housing agency awarded €5,000 over 'toxic' male workplace culture
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WRC Adjudicator Michael McEntee has ordered The Housing Agency to pay Auveen Coombes-Lynch €5,000 arising from her successful gender discrimination claim under the Employment Equality Act
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Lidl supermarket manager sacked for giving himself discount on stale bakery goods awarded over €17,500 for unfair dismissal
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Arkadiusz Grzyb was accused of manipulating Lidl's 'waste not' policy to steal bakery items in October 2020
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Care provider ordered to pay social worker €45,000 for not letting her work from home during Covid-19 pandemic
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St John of God Services will have to pay Ann Doherty under the Employment Equality Act for discriminating against her because she was a parent and pregnant at the time
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Security guard sacked for falling asleep on duty blamed employer for causing 'jetlag'
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The WRC heard that Jaroslaw Lukasiewicz had brought his own chair to work and was discovered sleeping on it by one of his managers after they had tried to call him five times
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Security man sacked after falling asleep at desk loses unfair dismissal case
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The security firm told the WRC that at one point the motion sensor lights went out due to lack of movement in the area
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Top Irish lawyer says you should 'NEVER' use your personal phone or laptop for work for crucial reason
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'Using your own phone or own laptop for work purposes, simple advice, never, ever, ever do it'
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Store worker who sold 30 designer lipsticks to one customer and was found with €2,000 in envelope rightfully dismissed, court rules
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Zheng Guo, who worked as a Christian Louboutin brand ambassador for luxury retail firm Puig, was sacked after breaking his employer’s six-unit policy
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Costa Coffee ordered to pay female worker who was sexually harassed €20,000
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In its findings, Labour Court chairman Tom Geraghty stated that Shauna Quilty 'has a right to go to work without being subjected to unwanted pictures of her manager in his underwear or childish and offensive representations of male genitalia'
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Cocaine addict who dressed up as dinosaur while working in Irish hospital loses unfair dismissal case
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The hospital representative stated that despite numerous attempts to contact him, the porter did not make any contact with management until he was dismissed in September 2019
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Carers awarded €150K after being sexually harassed by 93-year-old nursing home patient
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The assistants were dismissed by the home after a complaint that the wheelchair bound pensioner, who is blind in one eye, groped and sexually harassed them
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Nearly 35% of Labour Court appeals taken by people claiming they were discriminated over disability
Employment
Exclusive: Gender was the second most commonly cited ground for equality appeals, accounting for 38 or 21% of cases
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Homeless charity Focus Ireland ordered to pay former employee €22,000 for unlawfully ‘retiring’ him at 66
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The Workplace Relations Commission found that Joseph McGrath’s role with Focus Ireland 'was ended through unlawful and less favourable treatment because of his age'
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Patisserie ordered to pay €33,600 to former chef who was dismissed when she got pregnant
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Ms Padayachee alleged she was forced out of her “dream job” as a result of her pregnancy
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Owner of Dublin restaurant and pub group ordered to pay ex-girlfriend €104,000 for unfair dismissal
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In her hard-hitting ruling, WRC Adjudication Officer Niamh O’Carroll Kelly found that the unnamed business owner 'took advantage of his personal relationship with the complainant in an attempt to force her out of the company so as to ensure minimal financial impact on the company'
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Sausage factory worker gets €61,000 payout after losing job when she had a baby
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Inga Dainauskiene took a case against Rudd's when she was told she would be made redundant if she did not accept a demotion and a pay cut upon return from maternity leave.
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Female boss who was paid nearly €100,000 less than male colleague over 15 months wins action for equal pay
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It was determined that the GM was discriminated against on the ground of gender
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Publican ordered to pay ex-wife €9,500 for unfair dismissal from family business
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The woman was sacked by her husband’s company in June 2019 after an investigation into the woman’s ‘top-up’ withdrawals of €1,000 at a time from the business to the couple’s personal joint account
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