{"id":122120,"date":"2025-11-04T22:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122120\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:56:11","slug":"meat-plant-which-moved-pregnant-worker-to-tougher-duties-ordered-to-pay-e20k-in-third-wrc-ruling-against-it-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/122120\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat plant which moved pregnant worker to tougher duties ordered to pay \u20ac20k in third WRC ruling against it in 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Workplace Relations Commission\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aa4d8a3b-a495-4fab-911d-489eb8f5e1d5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Workplace Relations Commission<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A meatpacking worker who said she was transferred to physically tougher duties after telling her manager she was pregnant \u2013 before he cut her shifts \u2013 has been awarded \u20ac20,000 for maternity-related discrimination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">General operative Thayane Sousa was awarded the sum on foot of a complaint under the Employment Equality Act 1998 against Asba Meats Ltd in Shannon, Co Clare, in a Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) decision published today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Workplace Relations Commission A meatpacking worker who said she was transferred to physically tougher duties after telling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-122120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}