SIPTU member wins €100,000 award at Equality Tribunal
20 Aug 2010
During her employment as General Manager at the hotel between 2003 and 2007, Denise Batt was told she was the preferred candidate for a new job as joint manager of the Parnell Square hotel and a new Comfort Inn Hotel to be opened nearby. Soon before her return to work after maternity leave, in February 2007, she was informed that she was to be given a less important management role. When she objected she was promised she would retain the position as general manager. When she returned to work in March 2007 she discovered that another employee was also working as general manager and had been appointed to the same role in the new hotel. Denise Batt complained to the Equality Tribunal that she had not been given the opportunity to apply for the new position. Read more Full Equality Tribunal Decision available here