WRC found Garda Joseph Joyce was discriminated against but dismissed his complaint as out of time

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The Workplace Relations Commission found that Garda Joseph Joyce had been discriminated against when Garda management returned him to frontline work in 2021/22 without first obtaining a medical report or conducting a proper risk assessment. It dismissed his equality complaint because it was filed outside the statutory time limit.

Joyce, who has asthma, had worked from home during the pandemic and returned to duty on January 1, 2022. The adjudication officer found no discrimination within the six months before he lodged his complaint in October 2022, when he was on sick leave; that meant the WRC could not uphold the complaint.