Scales of justice in need of balance

The fact that it can take over two years to reach a verdict underlined one of the great failings in the workplace dispute resolution machinery, writes Brian McDonald

IT had been a long two years for Linda Magill. Not until September of this year did she finally get the chance to give her side of the story.

For 20 years she had worked at one of the most famous hotels in the country, The Grand in Tramore, Co Waterford. She had started there in 1992 and worked hard at the venue, which had opened almost 200 years earlier.