Car dealer to pay €72k over unfair dismissal

One of Tipperary’s best known car dealership, which is owned by a businessman who has campaigned against bullying, has been ordered to pay €72,000 to a former employee over its “wholly unacceptable” treatment of her during her pregnancy.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal heard evidence that Brian Mordaunt and Sons, based at Davis Rd, Clonmel, had asked the claimant to compromise her professional ethics over the treatment of Vat liabilities on repossessed vehicles.

The tribunal said it was reasonable that the claimant, Jennifer Beary of Kilsheelan, Co Tipperary, had left her job at the car dealership in light of the treatment she had received at the hands of her employer.