UCC professor fired after struggling to find a home in Ireland due to housing crisis awarded €300,000

Dutch economics scholar Dr Wim Naude, who was hired during the pandemic, said his career had been “ruined by UCC”

The Workplace Relations Commission

Stephen Bourke

A Dutch academic hired during the pandemic and then fired after telling University College Cork he was having trouble moving to Ireland to teach in-person because of the housing crisis has won €300,000 for unfair dismissal.

It’s the third-highest award ever made at the Workplace Relations Commission to an individual employee, and the record order by the tribunal against a public sector employer under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977.