Labour Court recommends €20,000 for worker dismissed after probation

The Labour Court recommended that Elementer Design Limited pay an operations manager €20,000 in full and final settlement after finding his dismissal unfair. The recommendation was signed on 29 January 2010. The Court found the worker had completed his probation and that the employer could not extend it retrospectively. It said he had been dismissed without an opportunity to address the company’s concerns, and that the decision was unfair on both procedural and substantive grounds. The worker was represented by the Services Industrial Professional Technical Union.