Former Google employee fails in claim of racial discrimination in loss of job

Workplace Relations Commission finds claimant failed to put forward evidence of discrimination to require rebuttal from former employer

A former Google employee who claimed he and two other black colleagues lost their jobs because of alleged racial discrimination in the performance management processes of its Dublin office has failed in an equality claim.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has rejected a complaint under the Employment Equality Act 1998 by former accounts strategist, Eyob Van Haute in a decision published on Tuesday.

An adjudicator agreed with lawyers for the tech giant that Van Haute had failed to put forward evidence to establish enough of an inference of discrimination to require a rebuttal from his former employer.

Van Haute told the Workplace Relations Commission in March that he was put on the first of two performance improvement plans in 2025, despite scoring better than another colleague who was not subject to the same formal process.

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