Early school-leavers' programme director wins unfair dismissal case

A boss of an early school leavers programme who is alleged to have facilitated overpayments of €50,000 to €60,000 to his wife and to have removed a fridge from the premises to sell online has been awarded €2,422 for his unfair dismissal.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudication Officer, Maire Mulcahy agreed with the employer that they were a number of grounds that satisfied a dismissal for gross misconduct and she did not find the dismissal to be substantively unfair.