Manager awarded €10k over dismissal

A sales manager chased his chief executive out of his home telling him he would kill him after the manager had dropped a suspension letter through the man’s letter box.

That is according to the chief executive of an Irish-based online ticketing sales firm who told a Workplace Relations Commission hearing that during the incident last October, the sales manager made a shooting action, putting his fingers to his head. As a result the chief executive went to a Garda station to make a complaint of assault.

Less than two weeks later, the sales manager was sacked from the firm after the directors carried out a Google search of the man’s name and found a 2009 newspaper article which “shocked them and put them in immediate fear”.