WRC orders €8,000 payment over firefighter fitness test discrimination

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The Workplace Relations Commission found that Cork City Council discriminated against Terézia Foott on grounds of age and gender when a one-size-fits-all beep test prevented her from advancing in a full-time firefighter recruitment competition. The adjudicator said the test gave younger candidates an advantage and disadvantaged women.

The commission ordered the council to pay Foott €4,000 for gender discrimination and €4,000 for age discrimination, totalling €8,000.