Worker made redundant after taking sick leave when Covid-19 hit Ireland, WRC told
The WRC made the order as it upheld the employee’s complaint of discriminatory dismissal under the Employment Equality Act 1998. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins DublinA property developer has been ordered to pay €35,000 to a medically vulnerable construction worker made redundant after taking sick leave when the Covid-19 pandemic hit Ireland.
Barrister Karl Shirran BL, who was instructed by solicitors Coughlan White and Partners, said his client took a number of periods of sick leave in May and June 2020 before getting two weeks’ notice of redundancy from the company in July 2020.The complainant said in evidence there were two other workers younger than him still at work at the last site he had been at – adding that he believed he was selected for redundancy because of his “age and ill health”.
The other was employed by an “affiliated company”, not the respondent firm named in the complaint, the director said. Mr Shirran submitted that there was “no merit” to the selection of his client for redundancy, with no formal decision-making process and no objective selection criteria for the decision.
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