Labour Court awards Rosderra worker €750 after finding grievance investigation deficient

The Labour Court allowed a worker’s appeal and recommended that Rosderra Irish Meats Group Ltd pay him €750 after finding its investigation of his grievance against a company director was deficient. The decision was dated 9 May 2011. The worker, represented by the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union, complained that the company had not investigated his grievance impartially. Rosderra Irish Meats Group Ltd said it investigated promptly and impartially, and that the worker raised no concerns until after his dismissal for absenteeism. The Court said he was entitled to a full investigation, particularly where complaints involved senior personnel, but could not determine the grievance’s merits because no full investigation had taken place. It said a fresh independent investigation was not viable because he was no longer employed there.