Curley v Iarnród Éireann

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Court: Employment Appeal Tribunal (Ireland)
• Judgment Date: 29 October 2015
• Judgment citation (vLex): [2015] 10 JIEC 2901
• Docket Number: UD119/2015
• Date: 29 October 2015

EMPLOYMENT APPEALS TRIBUNAL

CASE NO. UD119/2015

CLAIM(S) OF:

Philip Curley

claimant

and

Iarnrod Eireann (Irish Rail)

respondent

under

UNFAIR DISMISSALS ACTS 1977 TO 2007

I certify that the Tribunal

(Division of Tribunal)

Chairman: Ms P. McGrath B.L.

Members: Mr P. Pierson

Mr N. Dowling

heard this claim at Mullingar on 29th October 2015

The determination of the Tribunal was as follows:-

Determination

1 The Tribunal has carefully considered the evidence adduced in the course of this comprehensive hearing.

2 The claimant was dismissed from his employment of seventeen years in October 2014 (affirmed on appeal in November 2014) for attending work in an inebriated state on the 19 August 2014. The claimant's manager had been notified on that day of the claimant's erratic behaviour and directed that the claimant be tested for drugs and alcohol by the independent third...