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Part Time workers Advice on being let go

  • 09-12-2011 7:42pm
    #1
    leposean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭


    Hi there folks, in a spot of bother and looking for some help. I was recently let go from my part time job working in a bar, I had been doing between 20 and 30 hours a week. I turned up one day and was told what was I doing there, I'd been txt that I wasn't needed tonight and that there weren't many hours next few weeks. I went in later the week to be told the owners said to take the hours off me that they wanted to do them themselves. Within a few days the company had hired two new staff members.

    Question 1. Have I any rights to a claim here?

    The plot thickens, I was recently speaking to someone who still works there and found out that there was a reason I was let go. One of the girls who works there was at a friends party in the function room upstairs, she was getting drunk and kept asking me for sneaky doubles, the optic(for those who don't know this is the bottle mount on the wall) measures exactly 1 shot so I poured her one clicked it again straight away so it didn't have time to refill but to her would look like I was giving her a double. So she stays happy n isn't moaning and no one gets annoyed and nothing wrong occurs.

    In her drunkness she says this to her friend who is the AM that I'm dead sound doing this, apparently he tells the manager who tells the owner and bang I'm gone.

    Question 2 if this is the case do they not have to warn/accuse me or something other than not say it to me. I'm completely innocent so i this not wrongful dismissal or something

    Question 3. Even if I was guilty(I'm 100% innocent) of giving her larger tan a full measure is that grounds for dismissal?


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  • #2
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    leposean wrote: »
    Question 1. Have I any rights to a claim here?

    Depends on your contract

    leposean wrote: »
    Question 2 if this is the case do they not have to warn/accuse me or something other than not say it to me. I'm completely innocent so i this not wrongful dismissal or something

    Not in the case of gross misconduct
    leposean wrote: »
    Question 3. Even if I was guilty(I'm 100% innocent) of giving her larger tan a full measure is that grounds for dismissal?

    It's theft


  • #3
    ResearchWill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭ResearchWill


    Depends on how long you worked there.

    Even in case of gross misconduct you must be afforded a chance to defend yourself. Fair procedures apply to the work place.

    In this case there may have been an allegation from a fellow worker that while she was drunk you gave her free drink. You should have been afforded the opportunity to give your side of the story.

    In relation to your question if you had stolen the drink, then after a proper investigation you could very well be fired as trust is a very important for a bar worker. Best bet is to contact a local solicitor and see if you have a claim for Unfair Dismissal.


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