Mary Jane Sheridan wins Savoy Hotel discrimination case

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Mary Jane Sheridan won her indirect discrimination complaint against the Savoy Hotel at the Workplace Relations Commission, which ordered €1,000 compensation, reported on 20 November 2023. The hotel in Limerick refused accommodation after Sheridan and her husband could not produce a credit card on their wedding night.

Adjudicator Ewa Sobanska found the hotel’s credit-card policy was not appropriate and necessary, citing a lack of evidence for the past losses relied on to justify it. The report said the tribunal had yet to publish a decision on her husband Thomas Gammell’s complaint.