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Tuesday 29 September 2020
One woman has been waiting four years to have her case heard at the Equality Tribunal.
The school in the south of the country was found to have discriminated against its teacher on gender grounds.
An Equality Tribunal found that the woman had been discriminated against on grounds of her gender and family situation by her employer, the National Cancer Registry Board.
Another colleague had offered to take redundancy.
The complainant had been asked to provide legal evidence of his custody rights.
The company claimed there was no suitable alternative work for her.
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Grzegorz Delanowski and Leszek Pajak claimed their employer’s English-only policy discriminated against them on the basis of race.
The Equality Tribunal also found that she had been victimised by her employer in their handling of the complaint.
The Equality Tribunal found that the company had discriminated against her.
The man said the touching was natural.
The Equality Tribunal found the man hadn’t established a case.
Mariusz Kozak was awarded €28,000 in compensation from his former employer Eirtech Aviation Ltd.
Polish national Ewelina Gacek has won her case against €uro 50 store at the Equality Tribunal.
The university’s governing authority has endorsed the recommendations of a gender equality taskforce report.
The employee says the insurance company said ‘bring it on’ when she said she would go to the Equality Tribunal.
The woman had been looking for an ‘undercut’.
Agnieszka Sobczyk has been awarded €10,000 in compensation after being fired.
She had been inappropriately transferred by her employer.
The Equality Tribunal said that the majority of staff in fast food are not Irish.
The teacher was awarded €54,000 for discrimination after she applied for the job as school principal.
The Equality Tribunal awarded €123,000 last month.
The child had been involved in numerous other incidents of bad behaviour.
The man’s wife had enrolled her in a school without his knowledge.
Polish man Tomasz Jankowski’s case before the Equality Tribunal related to a number of incidents of unfair treatment.
John McDonald was dismissed from the Go Safe without first being consulted on alternative work within the company.
Hours and pay were cut “without warning” because the woman was the only non-Irish worker, tribunal told.
In a separate case, the HSE was found not to have discriminated against a young man with a number of health issues.
The man was told by the council he could not talk about his religion with his colleagues or members of the public after a number of complaints.
The Equality Tribunal found that the engineering lecturer had been discriminated against on the grounds of gender and disability.
Her previous role at a customer service desk had changed, meaning she would have been required to stand.
The Equality Tribunal ordered the Gaelscoil to pay his parents €750.
The woman claimed she was discriminated against by her employer after being racially abused by a customer.
The Equality Tribunal ruled that she had been discriminated against by Allied Irish Bank.
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The three cases were taken to the Equality Tribunal on gender discrimination grounds.
Despite accounting for just eight of 59 cases upheld at the Equality Tribunal, arms of the state accounted for €300,000 of the €1 million paid out since August 2012.
The Equality Tribunal has found that the Prison Service did not have “fair and transparent” selection processes in place.
The young woman was awarded the maximum of two years’ salary by the Equality Tribunal.
The teenager’s mother had argued that giving priority enrolment to sons of past pupils was indirect discrimination against Travellers.
ENGLAND HAS INTRODUCED new rules that could see people receive fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to self-isolate.
This means that anyone who has tested positive or has been a close contact of a Covid-19 case and fails to quarantine could receive a hefty penalty.
There have been some calls for a similar system here too, to prevent the spread of the virus and to stop any flouting of rules.
So today we want to know: Should people who fail to self-isolate be fined?
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