A driver who claimed to have smoked only one ‘joint’ two days before reporting for work has been sacked after testing positive for cannabis.

Dublin Bus sacked a long serving bus driver after he declared 10 buses defective over a two day period because of ‘collapsed cushions’ for his driver’s seat.

A female worker who had her breasts squeezed by a male colleague after he told her he "would look after" her chest infection has been awarded €25,000 for sexual harassment.

A duty manager at a leisure centre was unfairly dismissed after “an inappropriate image” of a teenage girl was found on a computer at the centre’s reception desk.

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 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.

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 parents' row over the enrolment of their daughter in a Co Clare school has resulted in the school being ordered to pay the father €3,500 compensation in a discrimination case.

A public body dismissed a ‘work shy’ clerical officer in March of last year after he worked just 10 days in 2018 after missing 400 work days during 2017 and 2016.

Al Hamza Food Ltd, trading as Bar BQ Tonight on Lower Clanbrassil Street, pleaded guilty in June at Dublin District Court to breaching the Employment Permits Act and Organisation of Working Time Act. The case was finalised today.

A long-serving Bus Éireann bus driver said that he has been left ‘deeply traumatised’ over the manner of his constructive dismissal by the national bus firm.

Trade union Mandate has warned of potential strike action at betting firm Paddy Power.

A decision by a Dublin airport-based airline services firm to discriminatorily dismiss a man with dyspraxia was informed by one of the firm’s managers carrying out a Google search on dyspraxia.

A football club has been given the ‘red card’ by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) when told to pay €13,000 for the unfair dismissal of a fitness coach.

A university lecturer at the centre of controversy last year over TV comments he made about female genital mutilation (FGM) has won his unfair dismissal case against Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

A black American tenant who was called ‘a black b***h and a ‘black c**t’ by a landlord’s son has been awarded €12,000.

A large supermarket chain is counting the cost of unfairly dismissing a female worker for taking without paying a €6.74 pack of ‘Hot Wheels’ toy cars for her upset 18-month-old baby boy.

The operators of the country’s top fee-paying tourist attraction must pay out after an unsuccessful job applicant was asked at interview how she would settle into a ‘young’ workplace.

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 menswear retailer sacked a top suit salesman after finding that he sexually harassed a younger junior female colleague.

A care worker was found sleeping on two chairs in a staff kitchen at a nursing home while the daughter of a patient was frantically looking for a staff member, a tribunal has heard.

An Egyptian crew member who would often work 20 hours a day on a ‘floating factory’ off Ireland’s coastline here has been awarded just under €40,000 in compensation

A male beauty therapist who failed to keep a job at a Dublin beauty salon has lost his discrimination claim that he was let go because he is a man.

A Turkish speaking ‘content reviewer’ at a consultancy firm here was sacked earlier this year after she allegedly called a Kurdish work colleague a “terrorist”.

A mother suffered increased panic attacks and anxiety in fear of herself, her partner and their three-year-old daughter being rendered homeless after their landlord refused to accept rent supplement payments.

A property firm has been ordered to pay €12,000 to a family who lost their home after their landlord refused to accept rent allowance payments.

Section 39 health and social care workers have reached an agreement on pay restoration.

A health service provider sacked a care worker on the basis of eye movements made by a non-verbal patient who alleged to investigators that he was victim of physical and psychological abuse by her.

A software firm which sacked an Office Manager with an incurable degenerative disease while she was on sick leave has been ordered to pay her €46,000 in compensation.

Boots Retail (Ireland) has been ordered to pay €700 compensation to an Algerian Muslim man living here after it queried why he was purchasing a bottle of hydrogen peroxide

A legal services employer has been ordered to pay €30,000 to an epileptic employee over its refusal to allow her work from home.

A restaurant boss sacked a waitress on the spot as a result of a customer posting a negative comment on TripAdvisor complaining that “the red-haired waitress was abrupt”.

A Dublin supermarket has been ordered to pay €750 to charity to avoid a conviction and a larger fine for hiring a foreign employee who did not have a permit to work in Ireland.

Luas operator, Transdev, has sacked one of its drivers after finding that he was ‘moonlighting’ as a taxi-driver in his wife’s licensed taxi.

A warehouse manager in a company, where another employee stole chemicals from the warehouse and put them up for sale on eBay, has lost his case for constructive dismissal.

A female service station manager was harassed on the grounds of gender after her married boss told that she had "beautiful eyes" and criticised her management approach.