Childcare boss gets €30k over ‘dismissal’

A childcare manager has been awarded €30,000 in compensation on top of an almost €16,000 redundancy payment, after the Workplace Relations Commission determined her voluntary redundancy was actually a dismissal.

The woman had worked at the pre-school since 1999, initially as a childcare worker but later as a manager until her departure from the company in 2015.

She gave evidence that while she loved her job and had a great relationship with children and parents, in recent years she felt “constantly undermined and bullied by the board members”.