A recruitment company employee alleges he was unfairly dismissed after reporting a senior colleague for allegedly pulling his wife's hair during a drunken leaving party. Sean Coffey claims Azon Point Partners Ltd, trading as Azon Recruitment Group, breached the Protected Disclosures Act and the Unfair Dismissals Act by sacking him a month after making the complaint.
A recruitment company employee who took “a lot of offence” to a senior colleague at his firm allegedly approaching his wife after getting drunk at a leaving party and pulling her hair has claimed he was sacked as an act of penalisation within a month of complaining about it, the Workplace Relations commission ws told.
Taking voluntary redundancy or getting laid off? You need to know about your tax, welfare and pension options Mr Landers said his client had been told he could be up for promotion prior to taking three weeks’ leave to get married in April this year. He said his client was put through an “accelerated” performance improvement plan after complaining about the alleged incident and had his employment terminated when he went to meet Azon’s chief executive, Ronan Colleran, the following month.
Mr Colleran said he did go to the “leaving do”, which involved and about 20 people, around half of whom were former employees of the firm, he said. His evidence was that he spent an hour there and bought drinks for himself and another couple and denied it was a work event. Ms Clifford said the complainant took “a lot of offence” to the alleged hair-pulling incident and reported the matter to Laura Murphy, Azon’s head of human resources, the following Monday.
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