Nuns ordered to pay over €70,000 for ‘callously’ sacking manager

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Stephen Bourke

An order of nuns which "callously" sacked a manager after making allegations which included a false accusation about her work-from-home arrangements, has been ordered to pay out over €70,000, with an adjudicator calling the case "extraordinary" and "one of the most egregious examples of mistreatment" he had ever encountered.

The Workplace Relations Commission also found that a separate accusation that the worker had falsified annual leave records had rested on the “fading” memory of a nun, while a witness who said she saw the nun sign them was “inexplicably disregarded”.

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