{"id":192554,"date":"2025-12-15T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/192554\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:25:08","slug":"us-multinational-sues-unfairly-dismissed-irish-executive-for-joining-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/192554\/","title":{"rendered":"US multinational sues unfairly dismissed Irish executive for joining rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Last week the Workplace Relations Commission heard Lionbridge conceded Ms O'Connell's dismissal was unfair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b202d75f-61ef-4899-9f0c-d7740ff2fe47.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Last week the Workplace Relations Commission heard Lionbridge conceded Ms O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s dismissal was unfair<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An American multinational which accepts it unfairly dismissed a senior Irish executive is suing her in a US court for joining a rival firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a lawsuit in New York, Lionbridge Technologies LLC claims Caroline O\u2019Connell breached a one-year \u201cnon-competition covenant\u201d by starting another job with \u201ca direct competitor\u201d seven months after departing the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week the Workplace Relations Commission heard Lionbridge conceded Ms O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s dismissal was unfair An American multinational which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,9657],"class_list":["post-192554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shane-phelan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}