Worker fails to prove discrimination on the grounds he wasn’t a Traveller

A MAN has failed in his attempt to claim that his former employer discriminated against him on the grounds that he was not a member of the Traveller community or a foreigner.

Eamonn Croghan, who had worked for Navan company Xtratherm Ltd since 2003, told the Labour Court that when he started working in the company’s loading area with two settled members of the Traveller community, all three were earning €7.50 per hour.

However, in 2004, the other two workers were given pay increases to €8 per hour but his pay was not increased even though they were all carrying out the same work.