Hotel to pay chef €20k. over sexual harassment

e Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ordered a hotel to pay a chef a sum of €20,000 over its failure to adequately address complaints that she was being sexually harassed by a male colleague.

e WRC directed the Greenway Manor Hotel in Kilotteran, Co Waterford, to pay the compensation award to the chef, Nadine Harty, who had resigned from her job over the matter.

e commission ruled that Ms Harty had been harassed and sexually harassed and subjected to discrimination by the hotel on grounds of gender in relation to her conditions of employment under the Employment Equality Act. Counsel for Ms Harty, Alan Crann BL, claimed that the conduct by the co-worker constituted persistent sexual harassment which signicantly impacted on his client’s employment conditions and