A tyre fitter who said he was "verbally attacked" by his boss when he refused to work an on-call shift after months of "excessive" hours has won nearly 11,000 for multiple working hours and employment law breaches.
The Workplace Relations Commission made the orders on foot of complaints by Odhran Dooley, who said he was let go after he told his ex-employer, Midland Tyre Services Ltd, that he didn't want to work on call for a second weekend on in a row.
He told the tribunal in evidence that it was the first time he had complained about a schedule of "excessive" hours which he said had him working between 51 and 79 hours a week and had left him "exhausted".
His former employer said Mr Dooley was "technically competent" but that his "attitude" and "refusal to work on-call" meant it had to end his probation.
At a WRC hearing earlier this year, the company’s operations director, Chris Parle, said that when he asked Mr Dooley to go on call for the weekend of 3 February 2022, he "was not aware" that the complainant was on call the weekend before.
Mr Parle said there was a "heated exchange" after Mr Dooley refused because the firm had already been "let down" by the tyre fitter originally rostered for that weekend’s on-call duty, but denied that he "verbally attacked" Mr Dooley.
He said he told Mr Dooley the following day that being on call was "part of his role" and if he wasn’t prepared to do it, the job "wasn’t for him".
Mr Dooley then looked for more money to work the on-call...
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