The Court of Appeal has overturned a €40,000 damages award made to a special needs assistant who was told she could not return to work arising from serious injuries suffered by her in a road accident.

Workers must be protected from retaliatory acts of penalisation from companies when they make a complaint to the authorities.

The Supreme Court has referred to Europe the question of whether the Equality Tribunal has the power to decide if the 35-year age limit for joining the Garda Siochana is discriminatory.

Third-level institutions risk funding penalties in the coming years for failing to address gender inequality.

Third level institutions face cuts to their funding if they fail to address gender inequality.

The Department of Education has been ordered to pay €5,000 compensation to a University College Cork student over its refusal to pay her annual grants after her disability forced her to take a three-year degree course over six years.

A woman has been awarded €13,000 in compensation by the Equality Tribunal after being told she needed to dress less formally and “get down and dirty with the men” during the job interview process with an unnamed suicide prevention organisation.

The commitment of NUI Galway to implement significant changes to address gender inequality in its senior academic ranks has been welcomed.

A five-judge Supreme Court has reserved judgment on an appeal by a woman who alleges that, as a student with dyslexia, she was discriminated against because special explanatory notes were attached to her Leaving Certificate. The notes stated she was not assessed on spelling and grammatical elements of language subjects.

Pregnancy puts a woman’s body under huge pressure, often leaving her exhausted. A supportive work environment is essential, says Helen O’Callaghan.

The Equality Tribunal has described as “wholly reprehensible” the lack of empathy a multinational retailer showed to an employee with multiple sclerosis.

An accounts assistant who was dismissed from her job days after informing a company she was pregnant, has been awarded €52,000 after the Equality Tribunal found that her dismissal amounted to discrimination on the grounds of gender.

A two-teacher Catholic primary school has failed in its bid to have a €54,000 compensation award made to one of its own teachers overturned.

A new industrial relations system comes into effect today.

A worker at a multinational retailer in a Dublin shopping centre, who claimed she was victimised after she complained that a security guard massaged her buttocks, has been awarded €33,000 by the Equality Tribunal.

Marks & Spencer has been ordered to pay €40,000 to a former employee of its Dundrum store after the Equality Tribunal ruled that she was discriminated against when the store fired her on grounds of disability.

A Polish receptionist who was awarded €63,000 for discrimination and victimisation by the Equality Tribunal has had the award quashed by the Labour Court — because it was made against the wrong employer.

A woman unjustly barred from a gym was awarded €4,000 in compensation after the Equality Tribunal ruled that a company dissolved her membership in “retaliation against her husband”, a former employee.

Richard Bruton’s sweeping changes could face a constitutional challenge as some lawyers see themselves being sidelined, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

A woman whose child was born as a result of a surrogacy arrangement has lost her High Court action alleging the State’s refusal to pay her maternity benefit amounts to unlawful discrimination in breach of the Equal Status Act.

A review of gender equality among third-level staff is to recommend ways to improve women’s representation at senior academic levels.

A printing company which refused to print civil partnership invitations for a gay couple has said that a complaint has been made about the decision to the Equality Tribunal.

Parents of children with a disability have claimed they are victims of “retaliation” by bodies including schools and the HSE if they complain about their child not being able to access services.

NUIG president Jim Browne tells Education Correspondent Niall Murray his institution is keen to rectify gender imbalance in senior positions as part of its assault on global rankings.

Traveller rights group Pavee Point has said another generation of Traveller children could be condemned to “poverty, unemployment and social exclusion” because of school enrolment policies.

A Supreme Court ruling is expected this morning on whether a teenage traveller was indirectly discriminated against by a school's admission policy.

Measures to improve women’s representation at senior academic levels are pointless unless promotion procedures are transparent, says an activist who won a recent high-profile case.

If the marriage equality referendum is passed in May, laws on workplace discrimination may be in conflict with these new entitlements, writes Claire Hogan.

A review of equality policies in third-level colleges is being considered by the Higher Education Authority amid ongoing controversy over a lack of promotion for female academics.

A university forced to pay a lecturer €70,000 for failing to promote her because she was a woman has appointed a leading female academic to help shape its gender equality policies.

Ryanair says it is entitled to a preliminary hearing of certain legal issues before the Equality Tribunal considers complaints made against the airline over its treatment of a former pilot, John Goss.

Students at NUI Galway have joined the campaign for equal promotional opportunities for their female lecturers after the university was found to have the lowest proportion of women in top jobs.

The Equality Tribunal has found that a primary school in Munster discriminated against a teacher on the grounds of age, religion, and sexual orientation and has ordered it to pay her €54,000 in compensation, the equivalent of a year’s salary.

Legislation aimed at protecting whistleblowers could prove to be a big challenge for employers, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

NUI Galway is to promote three people to senior lecturer grade after scoring errors in the promotion process were highlighted during appeals.

A worker who claimed he was forced to retire from a Co Donegal-owned seafood company at age 66 has been awarded €24,000 in compensation by the Equality Tribunal.

A lecturer who won a landmark equality case against NUI Galway is to make her €70,000 award available to help five female colleagues similarly fight their cases.

There was a time in Ireland when inequality was endemic and women were treated as second-class citizens.

One of the country’s top universities has been heavily criticised for discriminating against female staff by denying them promotions and favouring male academics.

Pavee Point has described as "despicable" the refusal by a funeral home to take the body of a teenage Traveller.

The Equality Tribunal has awarded a total of €63,000 to a Polish receptionist who, it found, was discriminated against on the ground of gender and race, and then victimised by her employer.

Questions have been raised over a €70,000 award to a ‘born-again Christian’ who lost his job after being discriminated against on religious grounds.