WRC awards anonymous childminder €3,600 for unfair dismissal

The Workplace Relations Commission awarded a childminder €3,600 after finding she was unfairly dismissed. In a decision dated 7 February 2023, it also found her separate employment-information complaint was not well founded because the relevant terms were in her contract. The childcare facility said the employment ended by mutual agreement. The WRC found the owner ended it during a heated phone call, without a disciplinary process. The adjudicator concluded that summary dismissal was unreasonable. She noted the childminder found alternative work about eight months later and had provided no evidence of efforts to find work during that period.