An IT engineer who borrowed €50,000 from colleagues by saying he needed to pay for his father’s cancer treatment was sacked for deceiving his bosses.
The man spent almost €5,000 with a company credit card while on a business trip to the US. When the company investigated it found that he had taken significant loans from his workmates.
The man sued for unfair dismissal at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) but did not turn up to the hearing to advance his claim. Gerald McMahon, the adjudication officer, said that his claim had not been well founded.
The man received a loan of €3,000 in April last year from his employer on “humanitarian and exceptional” grounds, and later $20,000 (€17,300) which he claimed was needed for