Employers Guide (COVID-19)
Most employers are aware of the procedures to follow when an employee is absent from work due to illness, which range as follows: Up to 3 days no medical cert, after 3 days many employers will seek a Doctor’s cert and thereafter a cert every week or month. The procedures should be set out [...]
TESCO BOSS SACKED FOR TAKING €1000 ‘GIFT’ FROM CONTRACTOR
A SENIOR Tesco manager was fired from his job after he received cheques totalling €1,000 as gifts from a contractor. Niall Browne, an engineer and maintenance manager with Tesco Ireland, claims he was unfairly dismissed from his €70,000-a-year job with the supermarket giant. The gifts came to light after an anonymous letter was sent to [...]
DUNNES TOLD MUSLIM WORKER SHE COULDN’T WEAR HER HIJAB
A FORMER sales assistant at Dunnes Stores has claimed she was unable to go to work because she was not permitted to wear a religious headdress there. Loreta Tavoraite (35), who is originally from Lithuania, began working in a Dunnes Stores in Ballincollig in Cork in July 2007. She later converted to Islam and for [...]
SACKED TARGET WORKERS VOW TO SIT IN UNTIL THEY GET PAID THEIR WAGES
SACKED haulage workers at the tax debt-ridden company Target Express have vowed to continue a sit-in at depots until they get unpaid wages. Seamus McBrien, the chief executive, claimed he was forced to cease trading after Revenue Commissioners froze its accounts and refused to strike a deal on money owed. It is understood he is [...]