A south Dublin car dealership has told the Workplace Relations Commission it dismissed a teenage saleswoman because she was not hitting sales targets of 20 cars a month - and insists it had 'no knowledge' that she was pregnant at the time.
A south Dublin car dealership has told the Workplace Relations Commission it dismissed a teenage saleswoman because she was not hitting sales targets of 20 cars a month - and insists it had"no knowledge" that she was pregnant at the time.She said she was never expected to sell 60 cars in three months as she had just left a retail job"doing batteries, bulbs and wiper blades" at Halfords.
The company's position was that the sales manager left the following day, and that if Ms Walsh did tell him she was pregnant, he never passed the information on to senior management. Giving evidence, car dealer Bruce Soraghan said that Ms Walsh received"significant" training but had"quite frankly, struggled".
When it was put to him that Ms Walsh would say in her evidence that the feedback was"always positive" Mr Soraghan replied"Maybe she’s confusing supportive with positive." He said a target for 60 car sales in the first quarter set by the firm applied equally to senior sales staff and people who had just started.
"Mr Soraghan gave me the advice that I wouldn't hit those targets in any way as a junior salesperson," Ms Walsh said of a review meeting in January, adding that the same was said to her the following month.
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