The Workplace Relations Commission found a complaint by Brian Kelleher against the Irish Prison Service not well founded in a decision dated 2 July 2025. Kelleher said refusing domestic violence leave after he took a day to support a former partner amounted to penalisation. The service said the person he supported and the purpose of the leave did not qualify under its scheme, and that he was granted annual leave for the day. The adjudicator concluded the person and purpose did not meet the scheme’s criteria, and that the refusal could not amount to penalisation on the facts presented. There is a discrepancy in the decision: its complaint schedule lists CA-00067206-001, while the operative decision says CA-00067205-001 was not well founded.
WRC finds domestic-violence-leave penalisation complaint not well founded
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