Care worker who suffered 'whistleblower’s worst nightmare' wins unfair dismissal case

Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudication Officer, Janet Hughes, found that the female worker was unfairly dismissed from her post after she made the protected disclosure. File photo: Eamonn Farrell

A care worker who made an allegation of elder abuse by a male colleague at a care home suffered a whistleblower’s worst nightmare.

That is according to Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudication Officer, Janet Hughes who has found that the female worker was unfairly dismissed from her post after she made the protected disclosure.