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UK – Domino’s Pizza franchise settles age discrimination case with Northern Ireland delivery driver (Belfast Live)

24 August 2022

A franchise of pizza chain Domino’s in Northern Ireland has agreed to settle an age discrimination case with a woman who believed she was treated differently during a job interview due to her age, reports Belfast Live. Janice Walsh said she was applying for a delivery driver role with the Domino’s Pizza franchise in Strabane, Northern Ireland in 2019 and the first question she was asked during the interview was how old she was. She claims that the hiring manager then wrote down the figure before saying ‘you don’t look it’. When she found out she was unsuccessful in her application she immediately knew it was due to the issue with her age. With the Equality Commission supporting her case, franchise owner Justin Quirk agreed to pay her £4,250 and apologised to her for what happened and regretted the injury to her feelings. A spokesperson for Domino's Pizza said the franchisee was no longer related to the company and the branch is under new management.