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On December 11, Mr Taylor went to the office of company accountant Claire Hegarty and attempted to hand over cash for the drill, which had not been purchased for company use.<\/p>\n
Ms Hegarty subsequently contacted financial controller John Doherty after becoming concerned about the transaction.<\/p>\n
The WRC found that Mr Taylor had never intended to deceive or defraud Mulrines and had not sought to personally profit from either the drill or the kegs.<\/p>\n
The commission also found that the disciplinary process which ultimately led to his dismissal was \u201cbiased and prejudged\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Taylor, who had no previous warnings, was dismissed from his role as maintenance co-ordinator by Marc Smyth.<\/p>\n
The WRC decision stated that his \u201clong successful career was completely disregarded\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was at all times acting in a transparent manner and on the basis of information given to him by Mr X,\u201d the decision stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no theft and no dishonesty. No consideration was given to sanctions short of dismissal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The WRC also noted that Mr Smyth had told Mr Taylor that the matter was \u201cout of my hands\u201d when he was dismissed.<\/p>\n
Mr Taylor was never provided with the rationale for the issues being raised against him in writing.<\/p>\n
The WRC said the use of the phrase \u201cout of my hands\u201d raised concerns that the dismissal decision had effectively been made in advance and that there was little point in appealing it.<\/p>\n
The individual who made the decision to dismiss Mr Taylor was not present at the WRC hearing.<\/p>\n
The commission ultimately found in Mr Taylor\u2019s favour and awarded him \u20ac14,000 in compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ballybofey company was ordered to pay \u20ac14,000 to a former employee after the Workplace Relations Commission found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-590139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590139","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=590139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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