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He was awarded the sum on foot of a complaint under the Payment of Wages Act 1991.

Tech firm to pay €64k in withheld commission to salesman

Financial technology consultancy Bankhawk has been ordered to pay €64,000 in commission it withheld from a salesman as "leverage" to get him to sign a non-disclosure agreement after failing to retain the original.

Business • 26 Mar 25

A solicitor at the office of the DPP has alleged at the WRC that he is being discriminated against by being denied the opportunity to prepare a murder case for the State because he is a recovering alcoholic

DPP solicitor says he was denied cases over drink problem

A solicitor at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has alleged he is being discriminated against by being denied the opportunity to prepare a murder case for the State because he is a recovering alcoholic.

Business • 26 Mar 25

A nanny has secured the €55,000 award at the WRC on foot of a complaint under the Employment Equality Act 1998

Fired nanny wins €55,000 for maternity discrimination

A nanny who alleged her employer turned "cold" after she disclosed her pregnancy and failed to "coerce" her into resigning before sacking her on "concocted" grounds has won €55,000.

Business • 25 Mar 25

Joseph Foster secured the awards against STL Logistics Ltd on foot of complaints under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977

Driver for Guinness delivery subcontractor wins €7,000

A driver working for a Guinness keg delivery subcontractor who was sacked despite denying an allegation that he offered a barman "kegs for cash" has won nearly €7,000.

Business • 24 Mar 25

More than 80,000 workers will commence a work-to-rule from next Monday, 31 March.

Unions accuse HSE of not taking health dispute seriously

Health unions have accused the Health Service Executive (HSE) of having a 'cavalier' attitude to planned industrial action next week in a dispute over staffing numbers.

Business • 24 Mar 25

The WRC found Waterford-based Smyth Kinsella Limited in breach of the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Act, 2005 in a decision published today

Manager dismissed after falling in warehouse wins €10,000

A manager at a workwear and safety supplier dismissed after complaining about taking a fall on a damaged floor in its warehouse has won €10,000 for health and safety-related penalisation.

Business • 21 Mar 25

The WRC's stated policy is that decisions on employment rights matters are returned within six weeks, but this is rarely adhered to

Industrial action on the table for WRC adjudicators

Industrial action by a "strong cohort" of adjudication officers at the Workplace Relations Commission is on the table after many of them were told to speed up their decision-making or face having their caseloads halved.

Business • 21 Mar 25

The employee, Sinead Behan, won the sum on foot of a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977

Publisher of Irish Central ordered to pay employee €12k

The publisher of IrishCentral.com has been ordered to pay €12,000 to a long-standing employee it made redundant after stopping press on magazines aimed at the Irish diaspora due to falling readership.

Business • 19 Mar 25

The WRC has rejected the worker's complaints under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 and the Employment Equality Act 1998 against the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin

Rotunda worker who was sexually harassed to appeal ruling

A female care assistant at the Rotunda Hospital who claimed she was forced to quit because its management let a porter who sexually harassed her stay on staff is to appeal a tribunal ruling rejecting her claim for constructive dismissal.

Business • 18 Mar 25

A scientist at an AI skincare research company has won orders for €11,500 on top of a statutory redundancy lump sum

Scientist at firm 'locked out' at end of maternity leave

A scientist at an artificial intelligence skincare research company has won orders for €11,500 on top of a statutory redundancy lump sum after she returned to work from maternity leave to find her workplace had closed.

Business • 18 Mar 25

The Workplace Relations Commission was told that Ms Higgins had worked for the business for some 14 years between 2008 and her redundancy in September 2022

Office worker wins €20,000 in workplace rights claim

An office worker who was made redundant for complaining about a hot-desking arrangement after a tradesman started cutting a hole in the roof above her with an angle grinder has won €20,000 in a workplace rights claim.

Business • 13 Mar 25

The Workplace Relations Commission was set to hear statutory complaints against Huawei Technologies (Ireland) Co Ltd by former employee Wei Luo

Talks fail in ex-employee's claim against Huawei Ireland

Chinese tech giant Huawei has been told it must be ready to defend claims of discrimination and constructive dismissal by a former employee of its Irish arm as early as next month after failing to reach a resolution in talks today.

Business • 12 Mar 25

(Stock image) Ms Douglas gave evidence that she received a "termination of remote working" letter from her employer on 12 April 2024 which gave her the four weeks until 13 May to return to work in person at the office in Cork.

Remote worker told to relocate from Monaghan to Cork

A remote worker who said she was given the "impossible" task of relocating from Monaghan to Cork to comply with a return-to-office mandate was made redundant within six months, the WRC has been told.

Business • 11 Mar 25

(Stock image) The adjudicator found there had been an "egregious default of employer responsibility" in the case.

Publican sacked barman after falling out with his father

A publican who sacked a barman after falling out with the worker's father and barring him has been ordered to pay over €9,000 for unfair dismissal and multiple further employment rights breaches.

Business • 10 Mar 25

There had been "sustained" unauthorised access to the restricted passport database in 2022

Sacked Passport Office porter loses dismissal claim

A Department of Foreign Affairs porter who was one of two civil servants sacked in the wake of a data breach and the discovery of an unauthorised computer in the basement of the Passport Office in Dublin in 2022 has lost a challenge to his dismissal.

Business • 06 Mar 25

Kieran O'Leary, a service engineer for Bord Gáis earning a base salary of more than €60,000 a year, has brought a challenge against his January 2024 dismissal

Engineer says 'no evidence' he took cash for side work

An engineer sacked by Bord Gáis over claims he was offering to do work on the side for its customers has said there is "absolutely no evidence" he accepted cash from a woman who complained about him.

Business • 05 Mar 25

A care worker was €6,500 for the dismissal in what the adjudicator called an 'extraordinary' case

Care worker wins €6,500 for unfair dismissal

A care centre which took the "extraordinary" decision to dismiss a worker who told an employment tribunal in a separate rights dispute that she intended to quit has been ordered to pay her €6,500 for unfair dismissal.

Business • 28 Feb 25

(Stock image) The worker, Christina Doyle, secured €5,000 on foot of her complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977.

School cleaner kicked out of job over bucket wins €5,000

A tribunal has ordered a school to pay over ten months' wages to a cleaner who was fired after being accused by the principal of leaving "hazardous material" - a bucket with diluted bleach - out in a corridor.

Business • 27 Feb 25

The new Bank of Ireland deal will result in a 4% pay increase which will be backdated to January 1 (Pic: RollingNews.ie)

FSU members in Bank of Ireland vote to accept pay deal

Members of the Financial Services Union in Bank of Ireland have voted to accept a pay deal which will result in a pay increase of 4%.

Business • 27 Feb 25

The former head chef at a Limerick restaurant told the Workplace Relations Commission that he had worked 111 hours a week in an effort to get the business up and running in 2023

Workers who closed restaurant over unpaid wages win €22k

A group of Limerick City restaurant workers who decided to close down the premises in a revolt over unpaid wages have won nearly €22,000 for employment rights breaches.

Business • 25 Feb 25

A warehouse worker has told the WRC that her hands were left blistered and 'almost without skin' from an adverse reaction to handling cosmetic products

Worker's hands blistered after working in warehouse

A warehouse worker has told a tribunal that her hands were left blistered and "almost without skin" from an adverse reaction to handling cosmetic products - but she kept going back to work because she needed money to support her family.

Business • 21 Feb 25

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) made orders against David Gaffney, trading as Gaffney Solicitors.

Secretary wins €7,000 for unpaid wages and redundancy

A solicitor's secretary has won around €7,000 for unpaid wages and statutory redundancy after her employer went insolvent and a plan to have her transfer to another firm fell through.

Business • 19 Feb 25

A veteran employee of the Hairy Lemon pub has won €30,000 at the WRC for discriminatory dismissal on the grounds of age

Bar worker let go at 71 wins €30k for age discrimination

A veteran employee of the Hairy Lemon pub in Dublin has won €30,000 for discriminatory dismissal on the grounds of age.

Business • 19 Feb 25

The Workplace Relations Commission is holding a hearing into a complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 against Protestant Aid

CORR Charity worker 'bullied' after querying cheques

A former charity administrator has alleged that his efforts in questioning a payment were "fundamental" to his selection for redundancy by the organisation.

Business • 19 Feb 25

Lawyers for the bank told the WRC that Alan Ecock had categorically denied in May 2023 that he was still doing bar work

AIB official who was moonlighting as a barman loses claim

A tribunal has upheld the sacking of a bank official who spent decades moonlighting as a barman "pulling pints" in a Dublin pub only to lose both jobs in a year after a senior AIB manager read about his unfair dismissal from the bar job in a news report.

Business • 18 Feb 25