Employment Equality Act, 1998
DEC - E - 2001/036
Mr. Declan Murphy
(Represented by MANDATE)
V
Tesco Ireland Limited
File No. EE 2001/50
Date of Issue 26/11/2001
Employment Equality Act, 1998 Sections 6 and 8 - Employment - Discriminatory treatment - Gender - Access to employment, training, work experience - Promotion - Prima Facie case
The complainant alleges that he was discriminated against by the respondent in terms of Section 6(2)(a) of the Employment Equality Act, 1998 and contrary to Sections 8(5), 8(7) and 8(8) of that Act for the following reasons:
(a) In relation to access to employment in the arrangements the respondent made for the purpose of deciding to whom the employment was offered;
(b) Refusal to offer or afford the complainant the same opportunities or facilities for employment, counselling, training and work experience as that offered or afforded to the current Personnel Manager;
(c) The respondent refused or deliberately omitted to offer or afford the complainant access to opportunities for promotion in circumstances in which another eligible and qualified employee was offered and afforded such access or the respondent did not offer or afford the complainant access in the same way to those opportunities.