Traveller wins payout after staff told they aren't 'like knackers going door to door selling tarmac'

The case was heard at the WRC

A sales assistant for a company selling solar panels, who is a Traveller, has been awarded €15,000 in compensation after a consultant told a meeting of staff that they were “not like a pack of knackers going door to door selling tarmac".

The Workplace Relations Commission ruled that the sales assistant, Kieran Reilly, had been harassed under the Employment Equality Act 1998 as a result of the derogatory remarks made during a meeting of sales staff working at Energy Centre Limited in Duleek, Co Meath.