ommission, The service are now demanding the Government set up a
Fair Employment Commission, with powers to identify wrongdoing and to punish firms who flout the law and exploit their staff.
Fair Employment Commission To Investigate Conclave of Cardinals After Allegation That They Only Considered Members of Roman Catholic Community For Top Job.
The payment is believed to be the largest ever awarded in such a case before the
Fair Employment Commission. It is five times higher than the previous settlement in a case brought against UTV by a woman journalist, which was settled for pounds 30,000.
But she says the investigation conducted by Sir Bob Cooper, the former head of the
Fair Employment Commission, failed to address any of her concerns.
Even today, the British
Fair Employment Commission admits that a Catholic is two-and-a-half times more likely to be unemployed than a Protestant.
The CAS say a
Fair Employment Commission would help to protect employees who are being victimised and exploited.
As the Northern Ireland Office and the
Fair Employment Commission last night confirmed the pay-out, new details at the centre of the bombshell case emerged.
THE
Fair Employment Commission has welcomed the Government's plans to tackle inequality in Northern Ireland.
A senior official of the Department of Economic Development, of which the
Fair Employment Commission (formerly Agency) is a part, told a Belfast newspaper last year that they had not taken the McBride Principles very seriously at first, but they have "cost millions to try to counteract."
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