In the latest of our series of posts on employment law stories in the news, we take a look at ten employment law stories that have made headlines between 13 February 2022 and 20 February 2022.
- NatWest faces £2m reparations for unfair dismissal of employee with cancer – A London employment tribunal rejected the banking giant’s argument that 44-year-old compliance officer Adeline Willis’s £160,000-a-year job had been made redundant, ruling that her dismissal had instead been “tainted with discrimination” (Telegraph)
- Receptionist wins tribunal after being sacked for having same illness as Kate Middleton – Receptionist wins tribunal after being sacked for having same illness as Kate Middleton (EssexLive)
- Tyre fitter wins £22,000 payout for being called ‘lazy old white guy’ by colleague – An employment tribunal ruled that Barry Moore was the victim of race and age discrimination following the comment by his colleague Desmond Owusu, who he worked with at Sean Pong Tyres (Mirror)
- Stammerer who ‘cynically’ tried to sue a market research company after they advertised a call centre job for applicants with a ‘clear voice’ loses chance for disability discrimination claim after refusing to pay to ‘prove he genuinely wanted the position’ – A stammerer with a history of suing companies for compensation has lost an appeal against a tribunal’s decision not to take his discrimination case forward (DailyMail)
- Man sacked after being unable to use Teams wins discrimination claim – Daniel Hayes faced a remote misconduct hearing two weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic but didn’t know what the popular video conferencing software was (Coventry Telegraph)
- Firm paid private detectives to spy on depressed dad while he was off sick – A glass manufacturing giant paid private detectives to spy on a severely depressed dad while he was on sick leave despite 36 years of loyal service (Liverpool Echo)
- Catholic civilian worker who took discrimination case against MoD set to receive over £500,000 – Bronagh Murray, 51, took a religious and sexual discrimination case against the Ministry of Defence after retiring due to ill health in 2019 (BelfastLive)
- Wetherspoon’s chef who claimed he was bullied by colleagues who called him ‘gay boy’ and waved a gherkin and penis-shaped straw in his face loses victimisation claim – Jamie Connolly said he was bullied by bosses at the Dairyman pub in Brentwood, Essex as well as being mocked for his sexuality (DailyMail)
- Woman awarded compensation after ‘all Chinese run chip shops’ comment – An employment tribunal heard Sherlando Sutherland mentioned her grandmother was Chinese and paralegal David Bridge then shocked her by asking: “Does she own a chip shop, all Chinese own chip shops?” (EssexLive)
- Black employee asked about her ‘inner chimp’ loses discrimination case – Lindani Sibanda said she was unaware of The Chimp Paradox and felt ‘offended’ when her manager used a term from the book (Telegraph)
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