School fails in bid to overturn teacher’s €54k award

A two-teacher Catholic primary school has failed in its bid to have a €54,000 compensation award made to one of its own teachers overturned.

Earlier this year, the Equality Tribunal made the award on the grounds that the female vice-principal was discriminated against on age, religion, and sexual orientation, for a principal’s post after finding that a nun on the interview board asked her “what about the homos?”

The school appealed the decision to the Labour Court, which has dismissed the appeal on two of the three grounds and reaffirmed the €54,000 compensation award.