1986 Letter Department of Labour to IDATU re Sexual Orientation in Employment Equality Legislation

1986 Letter Department of Labour to IDATU re Sexual Orientation in Employment Equality Legislation

Gay Rights

Trade Unions

LGBT Employment Rights

Employment Equality Legislation

Sexual orientation

Employment Equality Act

Letter sent by Ruairi Quinn, Minister for Labour, to John P. Mitchell, General Secretary of IDATU (Irish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union). This is a response to letter from Mr. Mitchell requesting a change in the Employment Equality Act to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. This was part of a wider campaign seeking protection for LGBT workers rights in Ireland. Gay Rights groups regularly lobbied Irish Trade Unions to support these rights and to campaign for change.
The Minister asked the Labour Department to consider incorporating such a provision. Sexual Orientation was finally included in the Irish Employment Equality Act in 1998.

Ruairi Quinn, 1946- Minister for Labour 1983-1986

Office of the Minister for Labour

Kieran Rose Collection

1986-10-06

John P. Mitchell, General Secretary, IDATU (Irish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union)

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Letter

eng

Text

1986

Ireland