A warehouse worker sacked after being accused of telling his manager to “f**k himself” during a row over wearing a face mask should receive compensation of €1,600 for unfair dismissal, the Workplace Relations Commission has recommended.
He told a hearing in April this year that he was loading parcels from the back of a trailer on to a conveyor belt in the day in question.“Sometimes when the workers can’t catch their breath they pull their masks down for a moment to help them breathe,” he said, adding that there was a “common trend” for people to wear their masks below their nose.
The shift manager then asked him to a meeting and the complainant refused to go “unless it was a formal one with a witness”.The complainant said as the shift manager “stormed off” he turned to his colleague and said the manager was picking on him.Your browser does not support the audio element.However, instead of being allowed to lay out his complaints at a meeting called later that day he said he was told he was being sacked.
Solicitor Colleen Cleary, who appeared for the company, said the complainant was dismissed for gross misconduct while on probation. The company considered the “level of abuse” and “serious breach of health and safety” to be gross misconduct, she said.
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