Sacked former technical director fails in High Court bid to stop dismissal

A former technical director of the Irish branch of MongoDB Limited, a Californian-based technology company that employs 30 people in Ireland, has failed in obtaining a High Court injunction restraining his purported dismissal.

Mr Justice David Keane said that Owen Hughes, technical director for the company’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, was told last month that his employment had been terminated.

He was returning from a business trip when informed on the telephone by his manager that a decision had been made to terminate his employment. A follow-up email had told him he would receive a month’s salary in lieu of prior notice.