The complainant works in the HR department of An Post National Lottery. The complainant submitted that when she succeeded her comparator in the respondent's HR department, she did the same work as he did, yet for lesser pay. She appended a complaint of victimisation, in which she claimed that problems with her performance and timekeeping, the veracity of which she accepts, were subject to excessive written documentation by her manager after she lodged her complaint with the Tribunal.

The respondent accepted that there is a difference in remuneration between the complainant and her comparator, but disputed that the complainant and her comparator performed like work within the meaning of the Acts. The respondent submitted that the reason for the