Sinead Behan wins €12,000 unfair dismissal award

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Sinead Behan won €12,000 for unfair dismissal at the Workplace Relations Commission, reported on 19 March 2025. The WRC found her role had become redundant but ruled the publisher’s consultation process was inadequate.

The adjudicator said the consultation began at short notice, did not offer Behan the option of being accompanied and did not properly explore alternatives. She also rejected a separate statutory redundancy claim.

The publisher had stopped printing its magazine titles as readership and advertising revenue declined. Behan had overseen print subscriptions; the adjudicator recorded that she received €8,331 in partial redundancy pay and found her loss between September 2023 and February 2024 was €21,631.