{"id":404192,"date":"2026-04-17T23:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404192\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:33:10","slug":"court-upholds-decision-that-former-twitter-employee-was-unfairly-dismissed-but-record-award-reduced-to-e200000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404192\/","title":{"rendered":"Court upholds decision that former Twitter employee was unfairly dismissed but record award reduced to \u20ac200,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gary Rooney received \u20ac550,131 in compensation. Photo: Colin Keegan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8a318990-f99f-4a69-8646-39428019a0fe.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)\">Gary Rooney received \u20ac550,131 in compensation. Photo: Colin Keegan<\/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)\">The Labour Court has upheld a decision that a former Twitter executive was unfairly dismissed but reduced his record award to just over \u20ac200,000.<\/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)\">Gary Rooney was awarded \u20ac550,131 at the Workplace Relations Commission two years ago after an adjudication officer found he had been unfairly dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Rooney received \u20ac550,131 in compensation. Photo: Colin Keegan The Labour Court has upheld a decision that a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26022,72,605,61,60,19247],"class_list":["post-404192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-anne-marie-walsh","tag-business","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-x-formerly-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404192","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=404192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}