Fashion buyer Poliane Fernandes Lima was dismissed from Born Clothing in Galway last January and received her new visa three days later
A fashion buyer who felt she was “treated like a criminal” when she was fired while waiting for her work visa to be renewed has won €25,000 for unfair dismissal.
Ms Lima said her visa had run out two days earlier, but she had a renewal appointment the following week and she had told the company’s payroll administrator the month before that she would be late having it renewed. “You didn’t ask her, you looked at what you had on file and said that’s it, you’re gone, without one conversation with her – why was that?” Ms O’Carroll asked.“You’re not answering the question I’m asking you. Why not go to her? Did you ask: ‘Did you get it renewed?’”“You didn’t ask her that, you just dismissed her with no process whatsoever, no investigation, not so much as a question asked – why was that?” Ms O’Carroll asked.
Ms Lima said she had just got engaged in December 2023 and had applied for a mortgage with her fiance, to whom her immigration status was linked.
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