WRC dismisses Gem Plastics disability discrimination complaint

The Workplace Relations Commission found Arunas Kutulskas’s complaint against Gem Plastics Ltd not well-founded, ruling the company had considered reasonable accommodation and had not discriminated against him. The decision by Adjudication Officer Conor Stokes was dated 15 December 2025. Kutulskas alleged the company let him go because of a disability and failed to accommodate him. Gem Plastics said it reviewed factory roles over about a year but could not find a suitable alternative because the work was repetitive. The adjudicator accepted that the company had practically assessed alternatives, despite producing no written report of its deliberations.