Bus company which falsely claimed driver used racial slur ordered to pay nearly €9,000

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Workplace Relations Commission finds two statements making accusation ‘likely prepared a year after sacking

The company’s case, set out by Emma Cassidy BL on the instructions of solicitor Setanta Landers, had been that Mr Cormican was “lawfully dismissed on the grounds of gross misconduct”, a position also rejected by the tribunal.

Mr O’Toole said that Mr Cormican “admitted using this language” at a meeting the following day, was dismissed by a company director and did not appeal his sacking. In his decision, adjudicating officer Kevin Baneham wrote that the most significant conflict of evidence in the case was the alleged use of a racial slur.

 

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