Coffee company ordered to pay €70,000 to salesman

A Dublin firm which sells coffee-dispensing machines has brewed up trouble for itself over its treatment of an employee and has been ordered to pay out €70,000 to the man.

This follows the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) finding that Scanomat Ireland Ltd’s approach was to freeze long-serving salesman, Derek Beglan, out of the company by setting unrealistic targets which made his position untenable.

In the case, the EAT reported that Scanomat managing director Corrado Morelli-Carroll was prepared to land Mr Beglan with a sales target of €1m for 2012 — an 69% increase on 2011.