February 17, 2011
By Staff Reporter
Rhonda Paisley, who lives with her parents, Ian and Eileen (soon to become Baroness) Paisley, is claiming sexual discrimination against the party’s 15-strong officer board, which includes her father and brother.
A party spokesman, however, said it is satisfied that the best person got the job. “It’s all in the hands of our lawyers and we are not going to be distracted by this from the bigger issues,” he said.
Behind the row are claims that traditional, religiously-fundamental party principles are being undermined by defectors from the Ulster Unionist Party. Rhonda Paisley would be considered in the ranks of the “old guard.”
Paisley has applied to the Office of Industrial Tribunals claiming sexual discrimination because she had been rejected for a job with a salary of