Photograph: Alan BetsonA veteran Irish executive has described finding out from a company newsletter that she was being demoted from her role as managing director of the multinational where she spent 24 years. “I have to say, that was pretty stressful,” Caroline O’Connell told the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC). “I believe I was dismissed because I took a grievance about my job being changed in a newsletter to the company,” Ms O’Connell told the tribunal. “What was I supposed to do, sit around for a year on the dole?” Ms O’Connell said. Mr Curran said that Ms O’Connell had failed to show sufficient evidence of efforts to mitigate her losses by interviewing for three jobs in the number of months she was unemployed.

Source: The Irish Times December 10, 2025 21:30 UTC