WRC rejects senior analyst's claim she failed to get promotion because of racism

A Workplace Relations Commission officer found that Alison McDonnell had presented no prima facie evidence that she was subject to discrimination on the grounds of race concerning promotion and training in her case against the Dell-owned VMware International Unlimited Company. File Photo: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A State employment watchdog has rejected a race discrimination claim by a black woman against an Irish unit of a US cloud computing software company.

In the case, Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudication Officer Enda Murphy has found that highly qualified Alison McDonnell - originally from the United States - had presented no prima facie evidence that she was subject to discrimination on the grounds of race concerning promotion and training in her case against the Dell-owned VMware International Unlimited Company.