Former Keelings worker loses challenge to his sacking at WRC

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Rudolf Csikos was dismissed for gross misconduct in November 2024 after 16 years at Keelings Logistics Solutions. Earlier that year, he had posted on LinkedIn that excessive working hours at Keelings were a factor in the deaths of two colleagues. The posts came amid his dispute with the company over alleged limits on night workers’ hours, which Keelings denied.

At a 2025 hearing, company investigation officer Damien O’Brien reported that Csikos had maintained his comments were not false when they met in 2024. WRC adjudication officer Brian Dalton said there was no evidence linking the alleged working-hours breaches to the deaths and adjourned the matter for a further hearing.

In a decision published on July 7, 2026, Dalton upheld the dismissal and rejected Csikos’s claim that he had acted as a whistleblower. Dalton found the claims “extreme and unfounded” and considered gross misconduct a proportionate classification.