Donard National School ordered to pay caretaker €210 for each missing employment statement

The Workplace Relations Commission ordered Donard National School to pay caretaker Daniel O'Connell €210 for each of two failures to provide required employment statements. The decision was dated 1 February 2024. O'Connell also complained that he was unfairly dismissed because of his union membership, that he was underpaid and that he had not received annual leave or all the holiday pay due when he left. The school attributed his dismissal to interpersonal and performance issues. The adjudicator found he had not established that union membership caused his dismissal. The adjudicator found the school had not provided the required statements of employment terms and upheld both related complaints, awarding €210 on each. The unfair dismissal complaint and the complaints about wages and annual leave were not well founded. The adjudicator found the termination leave payment was not €58 short, though any amount for preliminary work could not be calculated from the evidence.