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Veteran oil refinery employee loses €107k pay equality claim
Summary
Adjudicator Patsy Doyle rejected Sinead Cotter's €107,000 complaint alleging gender and family-status pay discrimination at Irving Oil Whitegate Refinery. The decision found that Brendan Collins worked on larger-scale projects and that quantity surveying was central to his higher-graded role.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Veteran oil refinery employee loses €107k pay equality claim. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
When:
- December 2019 Other
- 2026-03-09 Publication
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