{"id":32947,"date":"2022-11-02T06:41:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32947"},"modified":"2022-11-02T06:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:43:48","slug":"supermarket-ordered-to-pay-alcoholic-employee-e40000-for-unfair-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/11\/02\/supermarket-ordered-to-pay-alcoholic-employee-e40000-for-unfair-dismissal.html","title":{"rendered":"Supermarket ordered to pay alcoholic employee \u20ac40,000 for unfair dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting&#8230; According to this article in Ireland Alcoholism is a &#8220;disability.&#8221; Thus firing someone for drinking themselves into a coma while on the job is &#8220;discriminatory.&#8221; Would that ever fly in the U.S.?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/supermarket-payment-alcoholic-employee-ireland-20221030\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=jpeg&amp;quality=70&amp;width=720&amp;fit=pad&amp;dpr=1&amp;url=https:\/\/eu-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt5576132a57ac2646\/635ea9a051468e310c14aa0a\/UL_ALCOHOL.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite acknowledging both sides of the argument, the deciding officer in the case, Michael McEntee, ruled that &#8216;alcoholism was an accepted disability&#8217; and therefore agreed with the argument that the dismissal was discriminatory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/supermarket-payment-alcoholic-employee-ireland-20221030\">Supermarket ordered to pay alcoholic employee \u20ac40,000 for unfair dismissal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting&#8230; According to this article in Ireland Alcoholism is a &#8220;disability.&#8221; Thus firing someone for drinking themselves into a coma while on the job is &#8220;discriminatory.&#8221; Would that ever fly in the U.S.? Despite acknowledging both sides of the argument, the deciding officer in the case, Michael McEntee, ruled that &#8216;alcoholism was an accepted disability&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/UL_ALCOHOL1.png?fit=1182%2C665&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8zp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32948,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947\/revisions\/32948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}