Labour Court recommends €7,500 payment to Beaumont Hospital worker in role dispute

The Labour Court recommended that Beaumont Hospital pay a worker €7,500 as a goodwill gesture to settle a dispute over appointment to a candidate Advance Nurse Practitioner role. The decision was dated 23 January 2024. The worker sought €100,000 for lost wages and pension after she was not appointed to the role in 2016, and wanted two clinical procedures included in its job description. The Court recommended there was no basis to pay her as if she had held the role, which she had not performed. It said the procedures’ omission from the proposed job description should not prevent the parties agreeing it, as their omission from her Clinical Nurse Specialist job description had not stopped her performing them.