The woman, who worked for Asba Meats in Co Clare was awarded over €40,000 for sexual harassment She said she was "overwhelmed with fear" and felt the businessman was "looking for something else" She was relying on the firm for a work permit so she could work full-time and was "desperate for hours", WRC heard
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has been ordered to pay out one year's pay of €86,717 compensation to a female pharmacist who was repeatedly sexually harassed by a senior colleague in the workplace.
A Trinity College lecturer who secretly recorded his senior colleagues saying he would not be considered for a job has been awarded more than €30,000 at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).
'If you send an injunction to take down material, you shine a spotlight on it' A senior manager at Aer Lingus has told a tribunal she feared that a pilot-turned-whistleblower would enjoy the "Barbara Streisand effect" if an injunction was sought to stop him posting online about his dispute with the airline.
A salesman from the Travelling Community who was left "disheartened" and quit after he said he overheard the managing director of his new job making remarks about "p*keys" and "t**kers" has secured €7,500 in compensation for discrimination in the workplace. The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) made the award to the worker, Raymond Nevin, after finding that there was a "culture and tolerance" of the use of such "derogatory terminology" towards Travellers at CPF (Profiles) Ltd in Longford.
