Employee alleges non-renewal of his contract of employment an act of whistleblower penalisation
A voice note recorded by a worker talking about “cocaine use, smoking joints” and having “h*es” on a subcontractor’s site at Intel’s Irish semiconductor plant has been produced as a “cover-up” for whistleblower penalisation, a lawyer has said at the Workplace Relations Commission.
Aran Burrows, a former general operative with the firm, has alleged in a complaint under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 that the non-renewal of his contract of employment in February 2024 was an act of whistleblower penalisation.Do something with your savings before rates fall further Mr Burrows’s solicitor, Jade Wright of Ormonde Solicitors, told the tribunal on Tuesday that the report contained “some satire”, but met the legal test for a protected disclosure, raising a series of concerns about a project installing brackets at the Co Kildare plant.
Site manager Dave Kerrigan denied asking Mr Burrows to put together the report. He said he forwarded it unopened to a superior as Mr Burrows had asked. The company health and safety manager, Mr Hackett, said it was apparent from the message that Mr Burrows was working at height while “not clipped off” and “clearly using a phone” – breaches of an Intel health and safety policy. The tribunal was told that serious safety breaches could lead to the staff of subcontractors being blacklisted from Intel sites.
“Saying that ‘we have h*es up here’ – unless they’re badged or inducted by Intel, he might have a difficult time getting them in here,” Mr Hackett said.
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