Social service provider ordered to pay €31k to unfairly dismissed whistleblower

A social service provider has been ordered pay a whistleblower €31,649 for unfairly dismissing the project worker.

In the case, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has found that the project worker was unfairly dismissed for making a complaint to Tusla the Child and Family Agency (CFA) concerning the uninhabitable conditions endured by a high-risk vulnerable person in the care of Tusla.