Postal firm ordered to pay €8.5k to man with 'bad back' for not offering him delivery job

The employer stated that the CMO and our OHA “are aware of the demand that the role places on an individual’s body climbing in and out of a van over 150 times on average a day, lifting parcels of varying sizes and weight, bending down to put letters in letter boxes and in their professional opinion, it would be unsafe for him to do so.” File picture

A postal company has been ordered to pay €8,500 compensation in a discrimination award to a man after its failure to offer him a postman’s job over his ‘bad back’.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), adjudicator Conor Stokes has ordered the unnamed 'postal distribution company' to pay €8,500 compensation to the complainant after finding that he was discriminated against on the grounds of disability under the Employment Equality Act.