Ryan’s maths phobia claim doesn’t add up insists ex WOMAN WINS EQUAL PAY CASE OVER €97,000 GAP €168k Female boss discriminated against by video game firm
Ryan and Aoibhinn
RYAN Tubridy’s ex-partner Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain hit out at the presenter yesterday after he said he has a phobia of maths.
The RTE host, 46, said he has always struggled with the subject and finds it hard to help his kids with their homework.
But UCD professor Aoibhinn insisted there is no such thing as “math-ophobia” and claimed the phrase will put people off dealing with numbers.
On his Radio One show, Tubs said: “My point is I can’t do anything to do with sums, I couldn’t from a very early age.
“I felt the world is divided into people who are good at maths and people who are good at words and I’m the latter.
“To this day I fear the world of maths, I’m useless, absolutely.”
Tubs went to explain his issues quoting US studies.
He said: “But what is maths anxiety and where does it come from?
“Well it takes root from the term math-o-phobia.”
But Aoibhinn, who dated the host for five years until 2014, said the condition does not exist.
She tweeted: “There is no such thing as math-ophobia. There is maths anxiety and it occurs due to the classroom messages about maths (that you have to be fast, you’re born good at the subject etc.)”
A FEMALE boss who earned €97,000 less than a male colleague has won an equal pay case.
The Workplace Relations Commission found the ex-manager at a video game sales distributor had been discriminated against on the grounds of her gender.
It noted the absence of transparency relating to salary determination and ordered the unnamed company to pay the woman €97,666 in arrears.
WRC adjudication officer Brian Dalton said the firm failed to provide an adequate explanation for the difference in remuneration over a 15-month period.
The male comparator, a marketing executive contractor, was paid €168,000 each year while the woman, who was hired as general manager in September 2017, had a basic salary of €69,000.
In October 2018, the boss gave notice of her intended resignation and the male colleague left the company.
In a bid to keep the woman, the company offered her a €135,000 basic salary, 7% commission on gross profit excluding deals made by the owner and a retrospective payment of €50,000.
However, she terminated
her employment on November
30. The woman presented her own case against her former employer at a recent one-day hearing while the firm was legally represented by a barrister and a solicitor.
Mr Dalton stated the new terms offered in November “tends to show the company at that time accepted that the complainant was underpaid when compared to the comparators”. He added only when the GM handed in her notice of resignation was any serious attempt made to address the pay gap.
He also stated the firm was unable to provide a transparent explanation to show how the man’s wage was determined and why there was such a gulf with the woman’s, “who was the most senior executive in the company”.
In relation to the female’s separate pay discrimination claim concerning that of a previous male boss, Mr Dalton found the complainant was not discriminated against on the ground of gender as the former GM had performed work of greater value.
Salary earned by male marketing executive contractor at company