Office of the Director of Equality Investigations
Employment Equality Act, 1998
Equality Officer's Decision No: DEC-E/2002/4
Parties:
An Employee
(Represented by IMPACT)
-v-
A Local Authority
File No: CDEE2000/1105
4 February, 2002
This dispute concerns a claim by an employee that he was discriminated against by his employer, which was a local authority, on grounds of disability, within the meaning of section 6(2)(g) of the Employment Equality Act, 1998 and in contravention of sections 6(1) and 8(1) of that Act, in terms of his contract of employment and also when it failed to provide him with a reasonable accommodation as provided in section 16(3) of that Act.