“We were just left in a lurch,” said sales director David Griffin, who said the salesman simply failed to turn up for work without any communication.
Mr Maloney had travelled to Albufeira on Portugal’s Algarve coast – where the Griffin family wedding was set to take place later that week. “I saw him in a restaurant, but that could have been Thursday or Friday. I just stayed away; no point bringing a HR issue on a family holiday – a wedding,” David Griffin said.
In his evidence, Mr Fleming said: “I asked: ‘Where were you.’ Obviously we knew because of the picture. He shrugged his shoulders. He said he had to go.” “We say he was dismissed rather than resigned,” Eoin O’Connor BL, appearing for the complainant instructed by Richard Bowman Solicitors, said in a legal submission.