Jackie ‘amazed’ at pay of female staff

JACKIE CASEY couldn’t believe how the Government, as an employer, ignored discrimination in the Civil Service, while at the same time passing equality legislation that private sector employers had to implement.

“I was amazed that Government bodies could ignore the fact that women clerical workers were paid the equivalent of €200 per week, €50 less than men, doing practically the same job,” she remarked.

Working as a staff officer in the Cork District Court offices, Jackie is one of 26 women who initiated an equality test case with the Department of Finance in 1991.