WRC recommends €850 compensation for university’s delay in hearing worker’s grievance

The WRC recommended that a university pay €850 to a worker after it failed to progress her stage three grievance within its policy timelines without reasonable explanation. The recommendation was dated 24 February 2026. The worker had sought job resizing and appealed the handling of her grievance, but her stage three grievance had not been heard. The university said job resizing was management-led and that it had struggled to find suitable people to hear the grievance. The WRC found the university had failed to provide access to all stages of its grievance procedure. The WRC recommended that the university engage with the worker about how to process her grievance and that the university and trade union continue working together on disputes unsuited to the formal procedure.