Legislation bars ‘workplace dignity’ for gay teachers

Ireland’s equality legislation is a “barrier to dignity in the workplace” for gay and lesbian national school teachers.

INTO LGBT teachers group chairwoman Anne Marie Lillis said the main concern of LGBT teachers in schools around the country concerned section 37.1 of the Equality Acts.

In its current form, she said, it is a “a barrier to equality, a barrier to inclusion, and a barrier to dignity in the workplace”.