O'Callaghan Hotels fined €315,000 for unfair dismissal of pregnant employee

O'Callaghan Hotels has been ordered to pay over €315,000 to a former employee after the Equality Tribunal ruled she was discriminated against and victimised by her employer while pregnant.

Julie O’Brien, who worked as a sales and marketing director, claimed she had been put under pressure not to take her full maternity leave after the birth of her first two children.