€5k for cleaner fired over unpaid chocolate

A firm here has been left counting the cost after firing a cleaner who failed to pay for a bar of chocolate at a staff canteen.

This follows the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ordering a facility services provider to pay the cleaner €5,600 after finding that the company unfairly dismissed the worker.

The male employee was summarily dismissed on January 26 of last year after failing to initially pay for the bar of chocolate at the staff canteen in October 2015.