The full ruling will be published in the next week or so. Both high court and equality tribunal rulings are published online. An appeal has been indicated by Irish Rail which may hold things
The member of staff was not in the operations side of the house so it has nothing to do with any of the general managers. It was a head office position, based at Connolly station from information I have received .
The direct manager responsible would be John Kennan as head of HR / Business Development who would be in the chain between this member of staff and the top level managers assuming that marketing is a business development function. Mr Kennan is also the manager responsible for HR.
It is clear from this and several other cases that there is a systematic failure within Irish Rail to implement procedures and processes to protect staff from various issues and deal with HR problems quickly and in a manner which staff have confidence in. There was yet another case in the high court yesterday. 300k so far in payouts which the passenger will be paying for
Given the legal situation now is not a good time to make assumptions, once the ruling is published then the full details will be in public.
Last edited by Mark Gleeson : 16-12-2009 at 12:21.
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