Dragon firm to pay €4k to sacked sales assistant

The Employment Appeals Tribunal has ordered RTÉ Dragon, Ramona Nicholas’s pharmacy group to pay €4,000 to a female sales assistant the business unfairly dismissed.

In a majority ruling, the EAT found Cara Pharmacy unfairly dismissed Carmel Murphy as a sales assistant in February 2012 for “gross misconduct”.

After a two-day hearing into the case, a dissenting member of the three-member EAT found that Ms Nicholas’s business was “fair and reasonable” in dismissing Ms Murphy.