Healthcare assistant sacked for sharing video of care home residents awarded €7.8k for unfair dismissal

An employee complained that the worker had posted a recording of residents at the nursing home on Snapchat accompanied by the caption “f**k my actual life”.

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A healthcare assistant who was sacked by a nursing home here for posting a video of care home residents on Snapchat has been awarded €7,800 for her unfair dismissal.

The nursing home sacked the healthcare assistant on November 9, 2018 after receiving a complaint from an employee that the worker had posted a recording of residents at the nursing home on Snapchat accompanied by the caption “f**k my actual life”.