Claire Butterly awarded €12,000 after unfair dismissal

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Claire Butterly was awarded €12,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission after it found her dismissal from Carechoice’s Trim nursing home unfair, reported on 20 December 2022.

The case followed her doing laundry for an elderly resident who lived outside the home. Butterly said she had stopped providing the service in November 2019 and never used Carechoice’s facilities; the company regarded the work as dishonest and unauthorised.

The WRC found her actions ill-judged but not gross misconduct. It also recorded that a charge of falsifying company records had been overturned on appeal, while adjudicator Maire Mulcahy said Butterly had acted improperly by failing to record the transactions.