Recovering alcoholic gets €6,000 compo

A RECOVERING alcoholic who was passed over for promotion is to get €6,000 distress compensation and be appointed to the higher grade immediately with all salary and benefits backdated.

In a separate case, the Equality Tribunal ordered that a female civil servant, Carmel Boyle, from the Dungloe, Co Donegal, office of the Department of Social & Family Affairs is to receive stress compensation of €10,000.

She successfully argued the reason she wasn’t recommended for a more senior position was directly related to her not being able to carry out computer tasks due to her serious eye condition.