A care service provider has been ordered to pay a social care worker €45,000 for discriminating against her when not allowing her work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.
At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudicator Kevin Baneham has ordered St John of God Services to pay Ann Doherty under the Employment Equality Act for discriminating against her because she was a parent and pregnant at the time.
In his findings, Mr Baneham found that Ms Doherty “was not facilitated with working from home when those colleagues without childcare responsibilities or who were not pregnant were facilitated”.
