A Fórsa member employed by a local authority in the west of Ireland has been awarded compensation of €1,000 following their employer’s withdrawal of an offer of an SEO position.

The award was made following an adjudication by the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), which also called for ‘constructive and meaningful’ discussions to progress the worker’s appointment to an SEO post in line with Public Appointments Service procedures.

The member was represented by Fórsa official Maura Cahalan, who explained that the offer of the SEO post was withdrawn at an advanced stage of the appointments process.

Maura explained: “This was at a time of particular difficulty for this member, and a source of great distress to them. This is a very welcome outcome because it both acknowledges the degree of distress involved, and provides a means by which this Fórsa member can secure the post they were originally offered,” she said.

Maura said the experience illustrated the benefits of union membership. “Without union support this was a situation that anyone would have found very isolating and difficult to resolve by themselves,” she said.

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