Four psychiatric nurses who claimed their work shifts discriminated against their family life have been awarded €5,000 compensation each, the Equality Tribunal ruled.

AN Irish mother-to-be suffering from a pregnancy-related illness was not entitled to be treated differently to anybody else, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

A EUROPEAN court is expected to rule this week that the North Western Health Board (NWHB) breached EU legislation by reducing a female employee’s pay because she was absent from work with a pregnancy-related illness.