WRC unable to hear Gerard Corbally’s unfair dismissal complaint against World 2000

The Workplace Relations Commission could not hear Gerard Corbally’s unfair dismissal complaint against World 2000 Entertainment Limited because it found the company was not his employer. The complaint’s merits were not decided. The decision was dated 19 February 2024. Corbally said he was not offered work when production began on Valhalla in December 2019, which he believed was because of his union membership. World 2000 argued that he had worked for a separate production company and that his complaint was late. The adjudicator found that he was laid off in December 2018 and that his dismissal took effect on 1 December 2019, making his complaint timely. She found that Metropolitan Films International Limited, rather than World 2000, was his employer, so she had no jurisdiction to hear the complaint against the named respondent.