HSE guilty of paying women less than men

A LABOUR Court ruling has found the Health Service Executive (HSE) guilty of indirectly discriminating against women by paying female nurse managers less than men doing jobs of equal value.

The ruling means the HSE faces a bill of more than €2 million in back pay to compensate the women who are directors of public health.

Although the judgment refers only to these 33 women, the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) believes 200 assistant directors of public health, whose pay is determined by what the directors are paid, should automatically benefit.