Worker who quit after anti-Traveller slur used at sales meeting wins €15,000
The Workplace Relations CommissionA worker who said a sales consultant’s remark about “a pack of k****ers” was “deeply hurtful, offensive, and profoundly inappropriate” to him as a member of the Travelling Community has secured €15,000 in compensation for harassment.Kieran Reilly won the sum on foot of a complaint to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) under the Employment Equality Act 1998 against his former employer, Energy Centre Limited.
