The woman told the tribunal the dispute forced her to take sick leave from her job at University Hospital Limerick
A woman with a serious bowel disorder has been awarded 70,000 euros (£59,882) by an employment tribunal in the Republic of Ireland.
The medical secretary at University Hospital Limerick took the case against the Health Service Executive (HSE) West.
The Employment Equality Tribunal found the HSE discriminated against the woman and failed to accommodate her in a suitable office.
The HSE said it was considering the context of the tribunal's report.
The case was taken by the woman who suffers acute stomach attacks which cause embarrassment in a shared environment.
The tribunal heard that in 2006 her manager at University Hospital Limerick, which was previously called the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, accommodated her in an single-occupancy office near toilet facilities.
Stress
Her condition was exacerbated a year later when a stand-in manager instructed her to share a different office with three other staff.
The woman claimed the dispute forced her to take sick leave.
The HSE told the tribunal that after the trade union, IMPACT, activated grievance procedures, it offered the woman suitable alternative accommodation on the late shift at reception desks in either the emergency department or the main hospital.
But the tribunal said it could accept that these offers of employment which were in very busy and public areas constituted "reasonable accommodation".
On this and two grounds of discrimination, it ordered the HSE to pay her 70,000 euros (£59,882) which is close to the legal maximum - in redress and to restore her original conditions.
The Employment Equality Tribunal ordered the HSE to allocate the woman an office of her own near toilet facilities, similar to what she had seven years ago at University Hospital Limerick.
