WRC rejects Cork Airport worker’s gender pay complaint against daa

The Workplace Relations Commission rejected Rachel Larkin’s equal-pay complaint against Daa Plc, finding no gender discrimination and making no award. The decision was dated 28 May 2026. Larkin said she was paid less than male colleague John Paul Quinn for like work after her transfer to Cork Airport’s Airside Management Unit in 2020. The WRC agreed that their work was equal in value and that she had established an inference of unequal pay. daa argued the difference reflected historical pay arrangements and the preservation of Larkin’s existing terms when she was redeployed. The WRC accepted that justification, while criticising the lack of clarity around the redeployment and pay information.