WRC told: ‘I just tried to better myself. I didn’t rob the bank'
The Workplace Relations Commission has rejected complaints under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 and the Redundancy Payments Act 1967 by AIB lending manager Alan Ecock in a decision published on Tuesday. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish TimesA tribunal has upheld the sacking of a bank official who spent decades moonlighting as a barman “pulling pints” in a Dublin pub only to lose both jobs in a year after a senior AIB manager read about his unfair dismissal from the bar job in a news report.
He had started work at the bar, run by the Peacock pub family, as a lounge boy in the 1980s, and kept working shifts after starting work in AIB in 1994, the tribunal was told in that case.Are the magnificent seven losing their shine in 2025? Giving evidence In September 2024, Owen Murtagh, the head the mortgage lending unit where Mr Ecock worked, described reading a news report on Mr Ecock’s first case before the WRC in October 2023, which had referred to Mr Ecock as a “bar manager or bar person” in Kavanagh’s.
Mr Ecock continued to deny having any paid work at the bar until “the very end” of a subsequent formal meeting on 25th October, 2023, Mr Murtagh said. The bank’s later decision to dismiss Mr Ecock was based on internal investigation findings that he gave “false and misleading” information about his involvement with the pub business and for accessing the bank systems, the tribunal heard.
Although his immediate colleagues were unaware of his after-hours work, he said his former managers knew about it and that the bank had approved loans for him on the basis of the additional earnings.
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