![]() She said her supervisor asked for a "private word" and then told her: "You're sick, you’re not suited to the job" – or "words to that effect", Ms Z told the tribunal. Ms Z received the voice note while she was waiting to be relieved – and had just finished listening to it when her supervisor arrived, she said. However, when she went in the following day she told Ms B by text that she felt an anxiety or panic attack coming on, she said. The bartender said she finished out her shift on Friday 13 August 2021 before telling her supervisor she was feeling unwell, but agreed to open up the bar the next morning. It had denied dismissal, claiming that the manager mentioned in the voice note did not have the authority to carry out a termination and that there was no intention to sack the complainant. ![]() The WRC upheld her complaint under the Employment Equality Act 1998 in a decision just published, making a finding of discriminatory constructive dismissal against her former employer, an unidentified hospitality group which employs around 100 staff across 12 different businesses. The bartender, Ms Z, who said in evidence that she had asked her supervisor to keep the details of her anxiety disorder private, said she suffered "stress and humiliation" over what happened and argued she had been left with no alternative except to quit. ![]() F****** hates (sic) doing it but said: 'Look, she has to go," the supervisor stated in the recording, which was presented in evidence to the Workplace Relations Commission by the bartender’s lawyers at a hearing last December. ![]() " is f*****g killed with her nerves so she's over there in a panic attack now… I have to get rid of her now. ![]() A bartender who accidentally got a voice note from her supervisor stating that she had been ordered to "get rid" of the worker because of her anxiety disorder has been awarded €10,000 for a discriminatory constructive dismissal. ![]()
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