WRC rejects Carmen Nae’s discrimination and harassment complaint against Polonez

The Workplace Relations Commission found that Carmen Nae had not established discrimination or harassment in her complaint against Tempside Ltd, which trades as Polonez. The decision was dated 17 November 2025. Nae said she was refused entry to the company’s Moore Street shop in Dublin on 23 December 2022 because she is a Roma woman. The company denied that the incident occurred, citing the absence of an incident report and staff recollection. The adjudicator found the evidence about the alleged harassment unreliable and insufficiently persuasive. She also concluded that the pleaded combination of race and gender did not establish a prima facie case of discrimination. The complaint failed, and no monetary award was recorded.