€50,000 for unfairly dismissed woman

A ZIMBABWEAN woman dismissed by her boss despite being his most successful fundraiser has been awarded €50,000 by the Equality Tribunal.

Josephine Nyamhovsa worked in a commission-based sales role for Boss Worldwide Promotions Ltd (BWPL), which included going door-to-door to sign people up as donors for a variety of charities, in her case mainly Gorta.

In a recruitment brochure from Cobra Group Ltd, the umbrella company of which BWPL was a franchise, Ms Nyamhovsa is praised as being the most successful employee among the entire group of franchises in the category ‘Donations raised per Fundraiser’. She raised €405,749.48 in 2004.