Employment Equality Cases

Employment Equality Law Resources: Guide to Employment Equality Acts Proving an Employment Equality Claim Bringing an Employment Equality Claim Employment Equality Cases and Claims Employment Equality Acts  The Employment Equality Acts outlaw discriminatory treatment on any of the nine prohibited grounds in a broad reaching manner, covering not only exiting employment relationships but also the

Employment Equality Law Resources: Guide to Employment Equality Acts Proving an Employment Equality Claim Bringing an Employment Equality Claim Employment Equality Cases and Claims Introduction   A recent case before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) (Suchavadee Foley v Atercin Liffey Unlimited T/A Starbucks Tallaght ADJ-00028487) considered whether a drawing on a coffee cup could convey

Introduction In this case, the complainant, a cleaner, alleged that she was effectively dismissed following a transfer of the business on 02 January 2020, when the respondent, her new employers, refused to engage her services because she was 66 years of age (A Cleaner -v- A Cleaning Company (Adjudication Reference: ADJ-00026820)).  Her ‘new’ employers held

Introduction to Age Discrimination in An Garda Síochána A recent decision of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) casts doubts on the legality of age restrictions for certain profession that have hereto justified these restrictions by the physical nature of the work undertaken. In the separate cases of Fitzpatrick & Boyle (the Applicants) v Commissioner of An

Introduction to Stress and Disability Caselaw A recent case was decided by the Labour Court, which examined whether stress could amount to a ‘disability’ for the purposes of the Employment Equality Acts. Background The employee was a Personnel Manager in one of the employer’s stores and was a longstanding employee. This case was an appeal