My daughter was dismissed

Ye, I know exactly the type of employer, will take on younger people at min wage and treat them poorly in the hopes they'll leave before they gain any legal rights, then rinse and repeat.

They'll have an excel spreadsheet or calender set up to remind them to dismiss any employee who stays the course and is approaching the 12 months to get rid of them before then as employer knows there's pretty much zero comeback. You can tell from the wording of that letter it's not the first time it was used.

TBH it sounds like your daughter is far better off being out of such an environment.

She's 19. It was a part time job, not a career. She'll get over it. It seem to bothering you more than her.

Now time for you to get over it.

It's really not the end of the world.

What do you actually think you can do about it? Nothing.

She doesn't need you to sort out her problems at 19.

You and her should move on.

You have an extreme fixation on a reference when for years now, references have been downgraded to nothing more than a confirmation on the part of the previous employer that a person worked for them between specified dates.

The era of someone providing anything more? Has long ended. The risk placed on the referee is onerous and isn't something anybody engages anymore.

Your daughter has encountered a poor experience and a poor employer. Don't compound that for her by charging windmills.
The fact that her part time job ended?
Doesn't matter to any future employer, what will matter more are how she gets on at interview, what qualifications she gains in Uni and how she can parlay that experience into skills.

You are taking this way too personally. This mans actions dont define who your daughter is, they wont define her long term future. Unless im missing something, this a part time college job, presumably unrelated to her field of study

If you are reacting this way to what is essentially a minor setback you are setting a poor example for how to react to things not going your way. Sure, this guy is an asshole, but there are assholes everywhere. And people get laid off all the time for all sorts of reasons, sometimes personal and sometimes not, **** happens

You need to move on, your dedicating way to much headspace to this guy. Direct your energy into helping get her a new job.

Worth reading through here regarding dismissal procedures - horrible man

https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/ending%20the%20employment%20relationship/dismissal/

I would be tempted to speak to him myself - not in the hope of changing the outcome - best for your daughter she's no longer working there I'm sure, but just because people shouldn't be let to treat people in such a rubbish way. Good luck.

I think you need to just drop this for your own sanity. Your daughter will laugh at this with her friends in the future.

Take this story how you will.

My sister and I worked in a hotel in our home town. I was 18 and she was 17. She was dismissed for being late to work too often.

My mother threw a hissy fit and would not let it go. We tried our best to get her to let it go. Eventually she decided she was going to march in and confront the manager. I still worked there. Luckily myself and my sister called the manager so he wasnt there when my mother arrived. So she missed him, but still caused a scene. Though she calmed down the next day and still to this day goes on about it. Talking about how my sister was an angel and this man was a bully.

The real story was that my sister had thrown a drink in a womans face who was saying nasty things about someone my sister knew, so she lost her temper with a tray of drinks in her hands. The hotel owner saw this and insisted she be fired. This was back when references mattered. So our manager said he had no choice but gave her a glowing reference (this was when references meant a lot) and said for the hotels records he would just put the reason as lateness and get rid of it in a few weeks out of the files.

But my mother hates that man. If she ever saw him she would hit him. He was never anything but nice to myself and my sister. And to this day the only person who ever talks about this event as if it were a bad event and not a funny, life experience and growth event is my mother.

You only need to do one thing here and that's nothing. Leave that job off the CV. Just support your daughter for a day or 2 until she's over it. Reassure her that you'll cover her for lunch or college drinks or whatever and she can take you out when she can eventually afford it.

I was 30 when I went back to college and was working full time when I started. The full time job was too much to handle so I left and ended up picking up a few cash in hand jobs around evenings and weekends. I got "fired" a few times cos I couldn't make the times the employer wanted.

I have been asked just once whether I worked or anything during college and my stock answer is "I was lucky that my wife was able to cover our expenses while I was in college so a job was not required"

Your daughter can substitute parents for wife and nobody will ask a follow up question.

Don't go lobbying TDs, lol at that. Don't go contacting the employer. Don't do anything apart from being there to tell your daughter that this is a temporary blip and it'll be grand. Leave this job off the CV. Go and get any other number of retail or hospitality jobs that students do. She could have another job by the end of the week if she goes looking.

I know this means the world now at this particular moment but after a few months she'll be laughing about being upset by this.