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'The show's over, you're fired': Barman who says he was accused of stealing funds awarded €16k

He said that any such claims were totally fictitious and used as an excuse to sack him.

A BAR MANAGER who claimed he was unfairly dismissed by the pub he worked in after facing allegations he’d misappropriated funds has been awarded over €16,000 at the Workplace Relations Commission.

The manager said that he was employed by the pub for 18 months when he was called by the owner and asked to meet him in his car.

When he got into it, he claimed his employer told him: “The show’s over, you’re fired. Give me your keys.”

The worker claimed he was subsequently made aware by others that his former employer had made allusions that he had stolen money.

He said that any such claims were totally fictitious and used as an excuse to sack him.

While he didn’t have access to the company bank account, the man said it was normal practice to pay suppliers from the pub float and this never involved misappropriating any funds.

The manager believed the only possible reason for his dismissal was that the pub owner may have thought he was too strict in relation to the barring of customers from the pub.

He said the bar had a bad reputation under previous ownership and, as a result, he didn’t tolerate any unruly behaviour by customers while he worked there.

When he was dismissed, he said no issues had been raised with him and that he “did not receive any prior warning, either verbally or in writing… that his employment was in jeopardy”.

Furthermore, he said that when his employment was terminated in April 2017, he was owed a great deal of annual leave.

As the employer didn’t turn up to the hearing, and because the WRC adjudicator found the man to be a “very credible witness”, it was ruled that his dismissal was “substantively and procedurally unfair”.

As a result, he was granted €15,000 for unfair dismissal.

Turning to the annual leave entitlements, the worker was awarded an extra €1,658, bringing the total compensation to €16,658.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 7:31 PM

    The RTE click at it again,

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    Apr 24th 2013, 7:36 PM

    Yep

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    Apr 27th 2013, 12:24 AM

    Why do you say that Hillary? The guy taking over from him is an outsider, so is the new Head of News.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 10:37 PM

    So basically the headline here could’ve read: “Man moves desk.”

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    Apr 24th 2013, 8:14 PM

    They should just close it down and save a fortune. Would anyone actually notice anyway?

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    Apr 24th 2013, 9:39 PM

    Nope

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    Apr 24th 2013, 10:07 PM

    @Marko – no…..only their paymasters.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 8:24 PM

    Typical RTE Club.
    Merry go round Jobs for the Boys.
    No imagination and costing us a fortune .

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    Apr 24th 2013, 8:26 PM

    Was the job advertised?

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    Apr 24th 2013, 10:54 PM

    I think they asked Bill but he’s busy with some film thing.
    That’s advertising, right???

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    Apr 25th 2013, 12:32 AM

    It was actually. I spotted it on their website a while back.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 10:30 PM

    John McMahon resigns today and the radio listenership figures are released tomorrow. I presume that 2FM didn’t perform well in the listenership figures. Only in RTE could a person do a bad job and get moved to another area. No doubt, John McMahon is earning the same wage in his new job !

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    Apr 24th 2013, 9:38 PM

    I’d like to see Aidan Leonard take on the new role as head of 2 FM & run it along the lines of Smooth Radio/Capital Gold in the UK. Those two stations are proving to be Very Successful Operations in the UK Broadcasting Market. The current problem with Irish Independent Radio with the exception of Classic Hits 4 FM, Sunshine 106.8 FM is that, they all sound exactly the same.
    Bland, Formatted & Boring. So hopefully, the Power’s that be in RTE will Completely Overhaul & Re-Imagize 2 FM for the sanity of the Irish Listening Radio Public.

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    Apr 24th 2013, 9:44 PM

    Hey I’d love to see it as an Irish 6music but that is very bloody unlikely given RTE are still swamped in Smashy and Nicey’s….We’re still waiting for that Radio1 cull of dead wood they had in the 80s, over here.

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    Apr 27th 2013, 12:27 AM

    Re-imagize? Is that English?

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    Apr 25th 2013, 12:12 AM

    There’s a 2fm?

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    Apr 24th 2013, 8:52 PM

    6 comments = shit news

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