A hotel has been ordered to pay a worker €10,000 after an executive called them “an itinerant”.
Labour Relations Judge Catherine Byrne said “the Deputy General Manager’s public labelling of the complainant as an itinerant is grossly offensive”, reports The Mirror.
She found his explanation of his behaviour “to be ridiculous, not credible and disrespectful to this investigation”, reports The Mirror.
She was satisfied that the applicant, who worked as a bartender, had been harassed by the Deputy Director-General and that the harassment amounted to discrimination as the applicant’s family origins were in the traveling community.
Ms Byrne also noted that the hotel had failed to properly handle a previous complaint in 2018, which could have prevented the deputy general manager’s disrespectful treatment from continuing.
She directed the hotel to provide executives with professional training to promote dignity and respect in the workplace. The complainant resigned in August 2019 and Ms Byrne dismissed her separate wrongful dismissal complaint in 2018 as she had exceeded the six-month time limit within which wrongful dismissal complaints must be brought to the WRC.
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