OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF EQUALITY INVESTIGATIONS
EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY ACT, 1977
EQUALITY OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION NO: DEC-E 2000/02
Ms. Maura Fitzgerald
(Represented by the I.N.O.)
AND
Mid-Western Health Board
(Represented by the H.S.E.A.)
File No: EE 13/1999
This dispute concerns a claim by the Irish Nurses Organisation (I.N.O.), on behalf of Ms. Maura Fitzgerald, that the Mid Western Health Board discriminated against her on the basis of her sex in terms of Section 2(a) of the Employment Equality Act, 1977 when it did not appoint her to the post of Acting Matron of the Limerick Regional Hospital Complex.