Beauty salon ordered to pay €1,500 to Traveller family

'We did not take these cases for money, we wanted to challenge the unfair way we were treated'

The WRC said that the beauty salon against which the allegations had been made did not have any representatives at the hearing.

A beauty salon has been ordered to pay €1,500 in compensation to a Traveller family in a discrimination case before the Workplace Relations Commission.

When a mother and two daughters went to the salon for a “birthday treat” for one of them, the WRC heard they were asked to pay in advance for their treatments when other customers didn’t have to, were shouted at by the manager of the salon, and left to queue for longer than non-Traveller customers.