Tribunal scrapped as witness related to panel member

AN Employment Appeals Tribunal into alleged bullying at one of the country’s largest disability agencies was scrapped yesterday after it emerged one of the Tribunal panel is related to a witness.

Louise McCormack, aged 47, managed a workshop for St Michael’s House in Dublin and had claimed that she was constructively dismissed as a result of bullying by other senior staff at the Santry premises.

Ms McCormack’s representatives had already written letters to the tribunal alleging they were not receiving a fair hearing at the tribunal, which was due to sit for its fourth day this year on Thursday.