Vodafone whistleblower ‘must be reinstated’

A rights commissioner has ruled that a Vodafone employee who blew the whistle on a multimillion-euro fraud at the company and was later dismissed, should be reinstated.

The commissioner did not link the dismissal of John Bagge, a former compliance analyst with the company, to the whistleblowing.

However, she found he was unfairly dismissed after an absence from work due to work-related stress.