The homeless charity Simon did not unfairly dismiss a black woman manager, a judge decided yesterday.
Tabish Din, a native of Kenya who now lives in New York, failed in a damages claim for dismissal on the grounds of racial and sexual discrimination.
Judge Jacqueline Linnane threw out her claim in the Circuit Civil Court and told Tony Kerr, counsel for Simon, she was awarding the charity its legal costs against Ms Din.
Ms Din had told her counsel, Cliona Kimber, the Simon Community had forced her to quit her job because of racism and sexual discrimination.
She said she had joined as a senior manager in 2002 but had been made to feel isolated, excluded, marginalised and disempowered by her male peers and bosses.
The charity had denied Ms Din's claims and the former director of services for Simon, Pat Claffey, told the court Ms Din had raised allegations of racial and sexual discrimination with him only after she had submitted her resignation which he had asked her to reconsider.