The Keelings fruit and vegetable group has failed in an attempt to have allegations of whistleblower penalisation and multiple employment rights breaches by a former employee heard entirely behind closed doors.
At the Workplace Relations Commission on Wednesday an adjudicator told the firm’s representatives that the prospect of “certain people being named” in connection with the case was not reason enough to justify hearing the matter out of the public eye.
Keelings Logistics Solutions had sought a private hearing into claims by the worker, former warehouseman Rudolph Csikos, which were called on Wednesday at the employment tribunal.
He has alleged breaches of the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977, the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 and the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 against the company.
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