Porter ‘demonstrated obstinacy’ by refusing to use staff car park

A porter at a Cork hospital was fired after he repeatedly refused to park his car in the staff car park.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal ruled the operator of Marymount University Hospital and Hospice in Cork did not unfairly dismiss Tony Cashman over his insistence in parking in the visitors’ car park.

The tribunal heard Mr Cashman had worked at Marymount as a driver/porter since September 2007 under a community employment scheme before his dismissal in August 2012.