Worker sacked for napping in JCB shovel

A worker was sacked by a manufacturing company after his line manager found him taking a nap in the loading shovel of a JCB, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has heard.

It was one of two complaints that resulted in a finding of gross misconduct against the worker, which ultimately led to him being fired by his employer last year.

The other complaint related to an incident in which the man had been observed using a metal bar to ‘poke’ inside a machine without isolating it from its electrical source.