An insurance company here sacked a female sales agent for her use of the word 'n*****r' when referring to a black colleague.

A major bus company has sacked one of its drivers after he was convicted of careless driving and had a four-year driving ban imposed.

A major retailer has been ordered to pay a store manager €15,000 after unfairly dismissing him for hugging other staff members.

A café has been ordered to pay €3,200 compensation to a waiter for unfairly dismissing him over eating a croissant while at work.

A State agency has been ordered to pay €5,000 to a mother currently living in a Direct Provision centre over its discriminatory race refusal to issue her with a learner driving licence.

A director at CPL Resources who was paid €278,000 has failed in her claim that the recruitment firm unlawfully took part of her commission.

An executive whose yearly earnings have topped €275,000 at recruitment company, CPL Resources plc, has failed in her unlawful wage deduction claim against the company.

A Limerick belly dance tutor has failed in her unfair dismissal action against retail giant Dunnes Stores.

The complainant told the WRC that the comments were aimed at him on a daily fashion and there was constant sniggering and juvenile stereotypical references made in his company

The State workplace watchdog has recommended that a group of nuns pay a former domestic and print worker €2,000 for the procedural unfairness in how her employment was ended.

A secondary school Special Needs Assistant (SNA) has been unfairly dismissed concerning an allegation that he used cocaine on school grounds.

A female deli worker who was kissed on the neck against her will and pinched by a male colleague has been awarded €20,000 for ongoing sexual harassment.

The employer sacked the OM a number of weeks after telling him on May 8, 2018 that there had been some issues with missing petty cash receipts to the value of €100,000.

WRC Adjudication Officer Breiffni O’Neill has ordered that landlord, Martin Fleming pay Wally Nkikita the maximum compensation allowed under the Equal Status Act for harassment on the grounds of race.

Finding that the hotel discriminated against all three because they are Travellers under the Equal Status Act, Mr Dolan stated that the evidence presented by the hotel “lacks a level of credibility”.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ordered that a tech company here pay a former senior executive €250,000 compensation for his unfair dismissal.

A chief executive of a fashion company here hacked into a female colleague’s phone and downloaded the woman's personal intimate photos.

Permanent TSB has succeeded in having an award of €10,000 against it overturned concerning the dismissal of a bank official.

A group of care assistant workers in Co. Kildare have secured an "away win" with the Labour Court recommending that they can wear their football tops to work.

A facilities services company has been ordered to pay €7,500 to a cleaner for discriminating against the worker following her return to work after undergoing gastric band surgery to deal with a weight problem.

A secondary school has been ordered to pay €3,500 to a Transition Year (TY) student with a life-threatening nut allergy over discriminating against her when not allowing her to go on a school trip to France.

An airport worker who slipped into an aircraft hold for a sleep could have died after he was mistakenly locked in by a colleague shortly before the aircraft was due to take off.

An airport worker who slipped into an aircraft hold for a sleep could have died after he was mistakenly locked in by a colleague shortly before the aircraft was due to take off, the Workplace Relations Commission has heard.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ordered The West of Ireland Alzheimer Foundation to pay €14,000 to Kathleen Dempsey

A father has failed in a discrimination action against a primary school over its refusal to allow his daughter, who is a diabetic, attend a soccer blitz as she didn't have a spare insulin pen.

The Dublin Airport Authority (daa) sacked a long-serving airport police officer (APO) after he wrongly claimed €250 in lost cash that was handed into him by an airline passenger.

A female care worker who was sacked by a care home for allegedly striking an elderly dementia patient has been awarded €15,000 for her unfair dismissal.

A facilities firm has been ordered to pay €30,000 to a female catering assistant who had her bottom pinched by a chef/manager in a series of sexual harassment incidents involving the senior male employee.

Irish Rail fired a signal man responsible daily for the safety of thousands of commuters and rail-users after he failed a drugs test when cannabis was found in his system.

A primary school has been ordered to pay a deputy principal €93,498 compensation after it discriminated against her because she is a woman in a contest with a male colleague for a school principal’s post.

A care organisation sacked a worker after he asked a 19-year old female colleague had she ever been tempted to have a one-night stand and questioned her about ‘date rape’.

A design engineer for an agricultural machinery manufacturer who was discriminatorily dismissed over his stammer has been awarded €15,000 compensation.