Asthmatic Garda Forced Back on Beat During Pandemic

No compensation for asthmatic garda ordered back on beat during Covid-19 surge

Asthmatic garda forced back on beat during pandemic

A garda with severe asthma, withdrawn from a work-from-home arrangement and ordered back on the beat during a winter Covid-19 surge in 2022, was discriminated against - but it is too late to recover compensation, a tribunal has found.

‘I was horrified’: Asthmatic garda ordered back on beat during Covid-19 surge, WRC told

Workplace Relations Commission dismisses equality complaint from Garda Joseph Joyce

Garda loses discrimination claim over being forced to return to frontline duties despite asthma

Garda claimed he had been ordered back 'on the streets' during covid-19 pandemic despite suffering from chronic asthma

Garda with chronic asthma loses Covid discrimination case

Legal representatives for An Garda Síochána denied that any discrimination had taken place

WRC rules against asthmatic garda in discrimination case

A Garda has lost a claim that he was discriminated against when ordered to return to frontline duties after being allowed to work from home during the Covid pandemic due to his asthma, writes Seán McCárthaigh. The Workplace Relation Commission (WRC) ruled that the Garda Commissioner had not breached the Employment Equality Act by discriminating against Garda Joseph Joyce on grounds of disability in the relevant time period. However, WRC adjudica…