Hotel fined €8k after insisting waitress wear a skirt

A DUBLIN hotel has been reprimanded by rights chiefs for a second time and fined more than €8,000 for victimising a waitress by insisting she wear a skirt at work.

The Equality Tribunal said it was satisfied the owners of Sheldon Park Hotel, on the Kylemore Road, had discriminated against female employee Emma Conlon on the grounds of gender.

The hotel had also victimised Ms Conlon and she had suffered victimisatory dismissal after lodging a complaint with the Equality Tribunal, it was found.