€24k for woman bullied at work

A woman who had to leave her job due to bullying by a colleague has been awarded €24,000 by a tribunal.

Kathleen Hegarty’s work situation became so bad in 2011 that she was afraid to turn up at her job with Clare Civil Engineering Ltd and her home life was also affected.

She told an Employment Appeals Tribunal in Ennis that she was badly treated by her colleague for some time and her work life became so difficult that she complained to her manager on March 31 about being bullied.