WRC awards Siobhán McDonagh €25,177.62 for unfair dismissal

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Siobhán McDonagh has been awarded €25,177.62 after the Workplace Relations Commission found that James P McCann Ireland Ltd unfairly dismissed her in a redundancy process. Adjudication officer Úna Glazier-Farmer accepted that the company faced a genuine downturn and that a redundancy situation existed, but found significant procedural defects in the dismissal.

The WRC found the company had not consulted meaningfully with McDonagh, used no objective or transparent selection process, and had not considered alternative employment. The award was equivalent to six months of financial loss.