b) 'Cork Hotel used pandemic to terminate older workers' The Hotel used a temporary closure triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic to terminate older, experienced employees and replace them with younger, lower-paid workers. Catherine, a 50-year-old former housekeeper at the Hotel, filed a complaint claiming she and up to 6 other employees, most of whom were older than 50, were never called back to work when the hotel reopened. Instead, the hotel began hiring younger maids, paying them less than the terminated workers such as Catherine who had worked at the Hotel for 18 years