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Veteran oil refinery employee loses €107k pay equality claim

Date
2026-03-09
Stage
Hearing Or Decision
Primary locality
Whitegate
County
Cork

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.

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