WRC rejects style assistant’s dismissal and penalisation complaints

The Workplace Relations Commission found Rodrigo MacHado Soares’s complaints against Dylan not well founded, with no monetary award recorded. Adjudication Officer Máire Mulcahy’s decision is dated 8 September 2026. Soares alleged that workplace treatment led him to resign and that he was penalised under the Employment Permits Act. Dylan denied dismissing him and argued he resigned before using workplace procedures. The officer found no fundamental breach supporting constructive dismissal and said Soares had not identified a protected complaint or disclosure.