'Aggressive' supervisor said to have called worker 'snowflake' loses unfair dismissal case

The Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator found that Paul Dixon's very bad behaviour was of a kind that no reasonable employer could be expected to tolerate the continuance of the relationship for a minute longer. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A supervisor who allegedly called a worker a ‘snowflake’ during an altercation has lost his unfair dismissal action.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudicator Marie Flynn found that the decision by furniture retailer, dfs Trading Ltd, to dismiss Paul Gary Dixon for gross misconduct on July 31, 2020, was fair.