Labour Court recommends €5,000 payment to Kerry worker after facilitation process ended

The Labour Court recommended that Kerry Parents And Friends Association pay a worker €5,000 after finding the employer bore greater responsibility for prematurely ending a facilitation process. The recommendation was signed on 30 November 2017, following the worker’s appeal of an earlier recommendation that had not found in her favour. The process was intended to help restore a workable employment relationship after a bullying complaint and disciplinary sanctions. The worker said the employer suspended the facilitator after they disagreed over a work plan. The employer said she would not agree to a plan and that it consulted the facilitator before suspending the process. The Court considered the suspension premature and found the process had not been used to its full potential. It did not decide the disciplinary claims, which it considered encompassed by her separate unfair dismissal case.