€160k for unfair dismissal of ‘loyal’ worker

An office manager who was wrongly portrayed as “an employee from hell” by her employer has been awarded €159,705 for being unfairly dismissed.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) made the award, one of its highest to date, for the office manager’s sacking in July of last year.

The woman had been unstintingly loyal to her employer — a small family-run drugs company — for more than 30 years.