Security guard sacked for falling asleep on duty blamed employer for causing 'jetlag'  

Complainant was sole guard at a housing estate in Co Offaly at the time of the incident in December 2019, and was responsible for client assets worth 'several million euro', Workplace Relations Commission heard. File picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A security officer who was found asleep on the job while guarding "millions of euro worth of client assets" has failed in an action for unfair dismissal.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) heard Jaroslaw Lukasiewicz had brought his own chair to work, and was discovered sleeping on it by one of his managers after they had tried to call him five times without success.