Labour Court varies Bank of Ireland worker’s verbal caution recommendation

The Labour Court varied a recommendation on a Bank of Ireland worker’s verbal caution, ruling that the caution must sit outside the disciplinary procedures and not be relied on under them. The decision was signed on 30 April 2013. The worker appealed the Rights Commissioner’s recommendation that his complaint was not well founded. The Court found he had not been told in advance that the meeting about performance concerns was being held under the Bank’s disciplinary procedure, leaving him at a disadvantage in responding. It ruled that dealing with the matter without advance notice of the meeting’s purpose was unfair.