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 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.

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.

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

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.

The Labour Court has ordered Longford County Council to re-instate a 68-year-old lorry driver and allow him to work for the Council until he turns 70.

A rental company has been ordered to pay €61,100 to a General Manager after she found herself to be effectively demoted to general operative on returning from maternity leave.

A Leaving Cert student has told how her married restaurant boss would place his hands on her hands when she was marinating meat in the restaurant kitchen.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has recommended that the HSE pay a public health nurse €10,000 for the way it handled a formal complaint against the nurse by the father of a disabled girl.

A care organisation sacked a worker for setting off a fire alarm at a care home when boiling eggs and for carrying out to safety a resident from the home instead of evacuating him by wheelchair.

A government ministerial driver who served in his post for six years has failed in his claim that a government department breached workplace legislation concerning his role.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ordered that a care centre pay a ‘whistleblower’ nurse €35,000 for his unfair dismissal.

A senior house matron at a boarding school who claimed she worked 76 hours a week has won her claim for working excessive hours.

A butcher at a meat processing plant was assaulted and then unfairly dismissed arising from a dispute with a manager over a loin of pork.

A healthcare support worker "lost his career" in the health sector after allowing a vulnerable teenager in his care to go to a public toilet unaccompanied at Pearse Street DART station in Dublin.

A beauty therapy coach has failed in her discrimination action against her husband’s beauty therapy training business.

A Service Manager sprayed perfume on a male colleague and told him "let’s see how you explain that when you get home", the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has heard.

20% describe themselves as 'unhappy'.

A postman with An Post fell out with his bosses over his refusal to take on his delivery round a packet measuring just over 40cm in length over his belief that it was too big for his bike.

A second warehouse worker who was sacked for helping himself to sweets from a ‘Celebrations’ box has lost his unfair dismissal action.

A new father was sacked by his employer just 11 days after the birth of his new born baby while he was on paternity leave.

Gardaí have expressed “deep disappointment” that it will be the end of the year at least before legislation is in place to facilitate Garda access to the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court.