Jehovah’s Witness HSE worker loses discrimination claim over ask to accompany care centre’s residents to Mass [Video]

A JEHOVAH’S WITNESS who worked in a residential centre for people with intellectual disabilities has lost a claim that she suffered discrimination on religious grounds by being asked to accompany residents to Mass.

The Workplace Relations Commission ruled that the HSE had not breached the Employment Equality Act over its treatment of healthcare assistant, Judyta Zielinska, while she was working with Wexford Residential Intellectual Disabilities Services.

Ms Zielinska, who had worked with the HSE since December 2015, told the WRC she had informed management and her colleagues when she started her employment that she was a Jehovah’s Witness.

She pointed out that she told her employer that she did not participate in any religious observances that were not in line with her faith.

Ms Zielinska claimed she had numerous meetings and conversations with management and co-workers over the years about her religious background while she worked in various care facilities.

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