The owner of a legal practice has been ordered to pay a legal executive suffering from a stress-related illness â¬20,000 compensation for her discriminatory dismissal.
The legal executive was on sick leave for stress at the time of her discriminatory dismissal in January 2019 and also suffered from depression.
Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudication Officer, Niamh OâCarroll Kelly, found that the legal executive was sacked on the grounds of her disability.
Ms OâCarroll Kelly stated that stress came within the definition of a disability due to the fact that the stress in this case was severe enough to exacerbate the womanâs pre-existing depression.