Nuns ordered to compensate care home worker who was told 'if you walk out that door, your job is gone'

The Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator found that re-instatement or re-engagement were not appropriate remedies as the employment relationship has been irretrievably broken. File photo: Justin Farrelly /© RollingNews.ie

An order of missionary nuns has been ordered to pay €2,040 compensation for the unfair dismissal of a care home worker after she claimed that her supervisor told her "if you walk out that door, your job is gone”.

Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudicator Gaye Cunningham found found that as there was no due process as provided for in the Missionary Sisters of St Columban’s code of Disciplinary procedures, Jessica Tyrrell Browne was unfairly dismissed.