Kerry worker accused of racially abusing colleague awarded €10k after losing job

The WRC said there were fundamental breaches of fair procedures over the company’s failure to inform the employee of allegations against him at all times.

The WRC said the company had not completed an investigation report. File Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A former worker in a Co Kerry builders’ yard who was fired after being racially abusive to a colleague has been awarded over €10,000 after a ruling that his dismissal was unfair.

The Workplace Relations Commission ordered Richard Boyle & Sons in Co Kerry, to pay a total of €10,340 in compensation to its former employee, Gerard Maunsell.