A former security manager suffered a heart attack after being unfairly dismissed by Tesco for removing a toy from one of its stores without paying for it, a tribunal has heard.

A tribunal has awarded €5,400 to a worker who was unfairly dismissed after being involved in a horseplay incident in which he made a reflex reaction to being struck in the groin area with a towel.

Profits at the Irish arm of the world’s largest online takeaway ordering service, Just Eat, increased almost three-fold last year to €2m.

A fitness instructor, whose duties included life-guarding and teaching aqua aerobics, could not swim.

The managing director of a Cork courier firm must pay out €7,500 to his former partner and mother of their grown-up daughter in an unfair dismissal case.

A tribunal has found that the owners of Tara Mines in Co Meath were disproportionate in hiring a private investigator to place an injured worker under covert surveillance for a 13-day period.

A manager at a franchised Supermac’s outlet in Limerick lost her senior post after failing to inform her boss of two incidents that cost the firm €2.75.

A cleaner aged in her early 60s who lost her longstanding job over a burnt piece of toast has been awarded €25,000 for unfair dismissal.

The Irish and British governments have signed an agreement to tackle cross-border employment abuse of migrant and other workers.

A Cork-based creche manager who was “ambushed” by her superiors with a series of complaints by co-workers has been awarded €40,000 by the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

The operator of the National Car Test centres has been criticised for conducting “a sham investigation” into the complaints of an employee who threatened to expose regular breaches of the company’s rules at one of its centres in Cork.

A 999 emergency phone call operator who passed out on the job and was sacked as a result has won her claim for unfair dismissal.

A Ryanair flight attendant accused of harassing pop duo Jedward on board by asking them for their autographs has lost her case against the airline for constructive dismissal.

Richard Bruton’s sweeping changes could face a constitutional challenge as some lawyers see themselves being sidelined, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

The insurance company RSA is to appeal a decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal which ordered them to pay €1.25m to former CEO Philip Smith over his dismissal.

A school principal has won his battle with his board of management for payment of €1,769 for supervision duty.

A project worker at a west Dublin community drugs team was sacked in April of last year after he uploaded to Facebook a staged holiday snap of himself pointing a gun at a blindfolded man’s head.

A Limerick-based community education group fired a supervisor after finding that she ‘bugged’ a board meeting by placing a recorder in a flower basket.

A North Cork postman sentenced to three months in jail after admitting to stealing cash from envelopes has lost his unfair dismissal case against An Post.

A chef was sacked from a four-star hotel over the quality of a sandwich he prepared for one of the hotel’s owners and having chicken supremes at the wrong temperature on the same day.

The Menu’s most recent visit to Kinsale was for the purpose of first broadening mind before waistband, at the newly opened Kinsale Gourmet Academy, in Ballinacurra House. 

Post Publications Limited, publishers of the Sunday Business Post, are seeking to appeal a decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal that former treasurer Kieran Moloney was an employee of theirs.

A security man sacked by Tesco after collaring a customer who called him a “fucking headcase” has lost an €18,000 award.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that the decision by a four-star hotel to sack its restaurant manager over removing a surveillance camera was “grossly unfair”.

Two workers were sacked after jam tarts went missing from a warehouse.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has found that the Irish arm of supermarket giant Tesco unfairly dismissed a lung cancer victim.

The head housekeeper at one of the country’s most famous hotels has been awarded over €20,000 after a tribunal of inquiry ruled that she had been unfairly dismissed.

An "adored" field officer of Rural Resettlement Ireland has failed in his unfair dismissal action against the organisation.

Anyone who has flown from Dublin, Cork or Belfast into T1 in Heathrow will recall how long a trek it was to arrivals. Well say goodbye to all that, and hello to the bright, shiny T2.

A tribunal has ruled that a council foreman who is alleged to have threatened to turn himself into a ‘human fireball’ in a one-man protest had been unfairly dismissed.

A Dublin firm which sells coffee-dispensing machines has brewed up trouble for itself over its treatment of an employee and has been ordered to pay out €70,000 to the man.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that a care home provider "acted reasonably" when sacking a care assistant for gross misconduct.

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.

A Dunnes Stores deli assistant, who was sacked after admitting she had eaten chicken wings and goujons without paying for them, has lost the €8,000 compensation the Employment Appeals Tribunal awarded her for unfair dismissal.

A male sales assistant at an Irish branch of M&S was sacked after he ‘hid’ children’s clothes on a rack and later bought them as a gift for a child relative.

Tesco has been ordered to pay a convicted drugs offender €11,500 arising from an unfair dismissal hearing.