WRC hears Jess Quinn applied for role moving boxes with SSL Ltd but was not called for interview
The job involved moving boxes weighing between 7kg and 15kg around a HSE building at Merlin Park University Hospital in Galway, the WRC heard. Photograph: iStockA woman who claimed a company she worked for told her that a position moving boxes was “only for men” has been awarded €7,500 after a ruling of gender discrimination.
Ms Quinn started working for the company in December 2022 and was told on February 28th of last year that her contract would expire at the end of that week and would not be renewed. She and her colleagues were then told about a manual handling vacancy.Some children try to mask or camouflage their differences to fit inSimon Harris’s vacuous ‘live, laugh, lead’ online persona leaves me cold
She said she told the company representatives the restrictions were “sexist” and applied for the job anyway, but she was not called to interview. She said two men she had trained were hired instead. “A risk assessment was done. The outcome was that the work needed to be done by two people who were able bodied and stronger; not necessarily male, just stronger,” he said.
In her decision, WRC adjudicator Niamh O’Carroll wrote: “The respondent stated that whether someone was a male or a female wasn’t the issue, it was the person’s capabilities in relation to lifting boxes.”
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