The woman claimed that this and other matters amounted to discrimination and, despite a defence put forward by her employers, a WRC adjudicator ruled in her favour and awarded her redress.
Image: Shutterstock/Farknot Architect Image: Shutterstock/Farknot Architect A CIVIL SERVANT in a government department has been awarded €3,000 by the Workplace Relations Commission after claiming she could not breastfeed at work because the facilities were inappropriate.
It was also her claim that she was not told about a lock put on a meeting room door to help facilitate her needs, despite her employer’s claim she was told on a specified date that this had happened. “She said that the email regarding the use of a room had not been sent to her,” the adjudicator said. A senior HR official in the department told the WRC adjudicator that employees are assigned based on business need and at the time she returned from maternity leave the civil servant in question was assigned to an agency where there were a number of vacancies.
The department denied it had discriminated against the woman – either through denying her promotional opportunities or on the matter of breastfeeding. “When the complainant raised the issue of breastfeeding facilities, the respondent offered a room in its office some distance away.
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