by Mantas | Jun 25, 2021 | News, Real Life Stories, Real Life Stories
Paulina has been working in one of the busiest branches of a large German supermarket for 8 years. She was employed as a retail assistant. In March 2018 Paulina was asked to restock the milk fridges. She had to push a large, 1.8m high, trolley full of milk cartons...
by Mantas | Jun 25, 2021 | News, Real Life Stories, Real Life Stories
Marek has suffered from a severe nut allergy all his life. His family never ordered takeaway food just in case it contained nuts. This changed during the lockdown in April and May of 2020. Marek’s family decided to order food from a local takeaway. On the phone, they...
by Mantas | Jun 23, 2021 | News, Real Life Stories, Real Life Stories
Piotr had worked for a supply company for 3 years. The hours were long, the work was hard and the pay was ok. Piotr didn’t mind the hard work or the long hours. It was wet, windy, and cold when Piotr arrived with his lorry in the unloading bay in Galway City...
by Mantas | Jun 23, 2021 | News, Real Life Stories, Real Life Stories
Andrius worked as a mechanic for a small Irish transport company since 2003. He went back to Lithuania during the recession in 2006 and then came back to working at this company in 2011. He was a mechanic who serviced large delivery trucks. The company has...
by Mantas | Jun 23, 2021 | News, Real Life Stories, Real Life Stories
Mariusz has been working as a mechanic in a meat factory since he moved to Ireland in 2007. In August 2019 he was sent to one of the factories to repair a rotary packing machine which broke after one of the employees dropped a lump of meat inside. In order to repair...
by Griffin Solicitors | Apr 27, 2020 | News, Real Life Stories, Real Life Stories
No Manual Handling Training The client, a male Lithuanian national aged 35, was employed in a warehouse to load and unload sheets of glass. He had worked in the loading area since 2007. On Friday the 14th of March, he was working by himself loading glass into a van...
