Tribunal awards lecturer €15,000 for victimisation

WATERFORD Institute of Technology (WIT) has been ordered to pay €15,000 to a lecturer who the Equality Tribunal found it had victimised.

Kathleen Moore Walsh, a US citizen working in the college’s School of Humanities, had initially claimed she was discriminated against on the grounds of race and gender.

The tribunal rejected these claims, which were made on the alleged less favourable treatment given to her compared to a male Irish lecturer who had also made a bullying complaint.