Company ordered to pay ‘anxious’ worker €10,000 over ‘absolutist’ face mask policy

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Kamila Pietrzyk not granted exemption from wearing face covering during Covid-19 despite medical evidence of associated ‘anxiety disorder’

The company, which makes precision seals for the automotive sector, employs about 200 people at a site on the Finiskiln Road in Sligo Town. It denied discrimination.

The company maintained it never had the note and that it was a copy of a document submitted by the trade union, prompting the adjudicating officer to take evidence on whether it had been provided to the company at a review meeting its health and safety manager, Deirdre McNulty, in January 2021. Ms Pietrzyk phoned in sick the following Monday, with her GP citing “distress”, and did not return to work before she found new employment in September 2021, the tribunal heard

The campaigner had claimed he “knew a lot about the law” and called the face mask policy “illegal”, Mr MacNamara added. “What distinguishes the facts in this case from others ... is the fact of a disability being not only claimed but being evidenced in this case and that disability being accepted by the respondent, or at least not disputed by medical evidence,” adjudicating officer Janet Hughes wrote in her decision.

 

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