DHL fights driver ruling

Logistics company DHL has launched a legal challenge against a Labour Court ruling that it must pay one of its former drivers over €72,000 for unfairly dismissing him from his job.

In August, the Labour Court ruled Michael Coughlan was unfairly dismissed by DHL Express Ireland Ltd arising out of an incident in October 2015 when the company van he was driving collided with fencing at a DHL depot in Cork causing €2,500 worth of damage.

The company dismissed the driver/courier a month later for misconduct.