A 29-year-old gay man has been awarded €8,000 after a Christian colleague allegedly harassed him in the workplace over his sexuality.
The former trainee recruiter told the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) that while he was working for a recruitment agency, the recruitment consultant would refer to certain places as being “full of fairies and f*ggots”.
On numerous Fridays, his colleague said to him, “Don’t catch anything over the weekend”, which he interpreted as a derogatory reference to