Trevor Shaw was let go on Christmas Day to make way for a garda to drive Charlie McConalogue after security advice changed
A tribunal has awarded €30,000 to Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue’s former driver who was subject to “egregious treatment” when he was let go on Christmas Day to make way for a garda to replace him on security grounds.
Ellen Walsh of Sean Ormonde Solicitors, for Mr Shaw, said the Department of Agriculture’s handling of the matter was a “fiasco” which failed to honour her client’s employment rights. She branded it a “sham redundancy”.
Only ministers sitting at Cabinet got garda drivers under the new security arrangements, the Workplace Relations Commission heard. This meant civilian drivers stayed on the Department of Agriculture rota to serve Minister of State Martin Heydon, who does not sit at Cabinet.“Some guards had moved in. We’d been told: ‘Lads, the writing’s on the wall, you’ll all be gone by summer’. It was an absolutely horrible time for us, we didn’t know whether we were coming or going,” he said.
The alternative of the temporary clerical officer role was suggested without any discussion of Mr Shaw’s skill set, Mr O’Neill noted. He noted further that there had been no avenue of appeal offered.
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