Labour Court upholds warning for worker at Kildare Chilling Company after union appeal

The Labour Court upheld a Rights Commissioner’s recommendation that a written warning remain in place for a worker at Kildare Chilling Company, dismissing the union’s appeal. The decision was dated 18 January 2007. The warning followed an allegation that the worker damaged a beef carcass with a knife and failed to attend a meeting about the allegation. Services Industrial Professional Technical Union argued that two workers would support the employee’s account that he had not scarred the carcass and asked for the warning to be withdrawn. Kildare Chilling Company said the worker had been represented, given the chance to state his case and appeal, and that the warning was a fair and reasonable sanction.