WRC rejects Avoca worker’s penalisation complaint

The Workplace Relations Commission found Aleksandrs Fjodorovs’s complaint against Avoca Handweavers Shops Limited Retail, Cafe not well founded. Adjudication Officer Donal Moore dated the decision 9 April 2025. Fjodorovs alleged that a workplace investigation, disciplinary process and failed appeal amounted to penalisation under safety legislation. The company argued that he had not identified a protected act or shown a connection between one and the process, which ended with a final written warning upheld on appeal. Moore said the referral did not give him jurisdiction to reinvestigate the workplace process itself. He found Fjodorovs could not identify a protected act or provide evidence linking one to the disciplinary process.