EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY ACT, 1977
EQUALITY OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION NO. EE 23/1996
PARTIES
Fifteen Named Female Employees
{Represented by MANDATE}
and
Power Supermarkets Limited
{Represented by I.B.E.C.}
This dispute concerns a claim by fifteen named female employees that Power Supermarkets Limited trading as Quinnsworth, at Roselawn Shopping Centre, Castleknock, Dublin 15 discriminated against them on the grounds of their sex in terms of Section 2(a) of the Employment Equality Act, 1977 and in breach of Section 3 in that they were excluded from a night-work shift, which carried a premium rate of pay, temporarily put in place in the run up to Christmas, 1994.