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# Workplace Relations Commission

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Florist driver awarded €20,000 for dismissal after 'impossible' requests and hours
Sacked French woman awarded €10k for discrimination on the grounds of nationality
Gym worker who yawned and 'rolled on floor' in front of members awarded €1,420 for unfair dismissal
Woman loses WRC challenge as it's found golf club entitled to run gender-specific 'open' competitions
Boots pharmacy which questioned man about hydrogen peroxide 'discriminated on grounds of race'
Ferry worker who lost 'sense of pride' after 40 years in industry awarded €80k in discrimination case
Worker who posted derogatory Facebook memes about 'bosses' awarded €7,700
Landlord who refused rent allowance payment from family ordered to pay €14,000
Company ordered to pay man €8,000 over his payslips never matching what he was actually paid
Woman, sacked for refusing to allow customer return Christmas lights, awarded €21,000
Man awarded €3,000 for being unfairly sacked after Garda vetting showing he had an assault conviction
Warehouse worker on €37k fired for drinking a €2 soft drink and putting it back
Dublin restaurant told to pay manager €10k for firing him over fears he was setting up a rival eatery
University lecturer who claimed she was denied full time role over marital status awarded €9.5k
Mechanic awarded €11.5k after being sacked for failing to turn up to work on time
Luas driver sacked for moonlighting in his wife's taxi
Woman bullied and accused of doing 'crap job of running' property company awarded €12,500
Ministerial driver sacked over expense claims has unfair dismissal case rejected by WRC
Coffee shop which discriminated against pregnant worker ordered to pay €15k damages
'The show's over, you're fired': Barman who says he was accused of stealing funds awarded €16k
Tesco has been reprimanded for suspending a worker after last year’s strike
Bus Éireann in €5k payout over subcontractor who wouldn't let boy with autism eat toast in taxi
'Unforgivable': Worker quits job after boss takes him out to sea to quiz him over missing €10k
Employer who sacked worker after secretly filming him siphoning off diesel 'behaved reasonably'
Worker who 'feared for her life' with psychiatric patient awarded €2.5k over delay in handling complaint
Woman, sacked same day she told employer she had to attend pregnancy appointment, awarded €10,000
NCT firm right to fire test centre worker who allegedly told customer 'f**k off', WRC rules
Parent 'shocked' by child's poor maths grade loses racial discrimination case
Employee awarded €8,000 after colleague linked homosexuality to child abuse
'If that was a dress I'd rip it off': €600 for bus driver dismissed after complaint about children's escort
'A huge victory' - Transgender man awarded €5,000 compensation from barber who refused to cut his hair
Chef, sacked after threatening porter who called him a motherf**er, awarded €6,000 for unfair dismissal
Catholic mother loses case after claiming girl turned down for school bus scheme on religious grounds
Childcare worker who had rock thrown at him and was regularly threatened wins €15k compensation
Sacked worker who went along with false story to 'protect teammate' awarded €50k compensation
Golfer loses discrimination case against Co Wicklow club which held male-only competition
'They wanted me out': Former emergency service controller awarded €5k over 'flawed' disciplinary probe
Bus driver, who lost job after requesting CCTV which showed him on phone while driving, reinstated
Sister awarded €32,000 after being unfairly sacked from her own family's jewellery company
Kenyan retail worker subjected to 'racially motivated' April Fools prank awarded €10,000