Ex-manager made redundant by Dublin hotel awarded €27k for unfair dismissal

The WRC upheld a complaint by Peter Brennan that a flawed process was used by the owner of The Address Connolly on Amiens Street in Dublin to select him for redundancy when the hotel suffered a major reduction in revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo via Google Street view

The owners of a well-known Dublin hotel have been ordered to pay its former general manager €27,760 in compensation after the Workplace Relations Commission ruled he had been unfairly dismissed.

The WRC upheld a complaint by Peter Brennan that a flawed process was used by the owner of The Address Connolly – formerly known as the North Star Hotel – on Amiens Street in Dublin to select him for redundancy when the hotel suffered a major reduction in revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic.