A single mother of three dismissed from her administration job at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) has secured an admission that her dismissal was unfair after she was left out of work for more than a year.
Monsurat Balogun, a project co-ordinator, said that after her dismissal in March 2025, she was left “having to explain to my kids having to pull them out of their after school activities” because “I couldn’t afford it”.
Her complaint under the Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 against the professional accreditation body for specialist doctors, was heard at the Workplace Relations Commission on Thursday.
Balogun was dismissed from the €36,000 job with one month’s notice on the stated basis of gross misconduct in March 2025, the tribunal heard.
No details of what misconduct was alleged was disclosed at the hearing, which was confined to the issue of compensation after the institution’s barrister said it was “going to concede the unfairness of the dismissal”.
