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Gordon Deegan

Irish hotel told to pay €10,000 to worker over 'grossly offensive' Traveller slur

A hotel has been ordered to pay €10,000 to a female worker after a senior manager referred to her as “an itinerant”.

Workplace Relations Commission Adjudicator Catherine Byrne stated “the Deputy General Manager’s public labelling of the complainant as an itinerant is grossly offensive”.

She found his explanation of his conduct “to be ridiculous, not credible and disrespectful to this investigation”.

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She was satisfied that the complainant, who worked as a bar tender, was subjected to harassment by the Deputy GM and the harassment constitutes discrimination on the ground that the complainant’s family origin is in the Traveller community.

Ms Byrne also found that the hotel failed to deal properly with an earlier complaint in 2018, which could have prevented the continuation of the Deputy GM’s disrespectful treatment.

She ordered the hotel to provide professional training to managers regarding the promotion of dignity and respect in the workplace. The complainant resigned in August 2019 and Ms Byrne dismissed her separate unfair dismissal action in 2018 as it was outside the six-month time frame within which complaints of unfair dismissal must be submitted to the WRC.

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