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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
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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