Labour Court affirms no-jurisdiction decision on Whartons Travel appeal

The Labour Court affirmed a decision that the WRC had no jurisdiction to hear Mr John Browne’s complaint against Whartons Travel Limited because the company had been dissolved. The determination was signed on 1 September 2021; the merits were not decided. Mr Browne said he had been laid off and told he was redundant. He argued that an EU insolvency rule applied despite the company’s dissolution and that the Department was responsible for the redundancy payment. The Court found that no other respondent was before it and that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the appeal against a dissolved company.