Lidl manager sacked for buying baked goods at discount awarded €21k

Manager purchased €7.20 of baked goods at a knock-down 40 cent 25 minutes before close of business, Workplace Relations Commission heard
Lidl manager sacked for buying baked goods at discount awarded €21k

WRC found there was little consideration of manager's explanation for breach of the procedures or evidence from other witnesses of the lack of clarity in the Lidl discounting practice of baked goods. Picture: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

The Irish arm of German discount giant Lidl sacked a manager after he purchased €7.20 of baked goods at a knock-down 40 cent 25 minutes before close of business.

Now, Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator, Davnet O’Driscoll has found Arkadiusz Grzyb was unfairly dismissed and has ordered Lidl Ireland Gmbh to pay Mr Grzyb €21,211 in compensation.

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