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 21 February 2022 and 27 February 2022.
- Firefighter who sent degrading messages to a WhatsApp group after a middle-of-the-night call out to a disabled man who was trapped in his toilet loses fight to get his job back – A firefighter who was called out in the middle of the night to help a disabled man trapped in his toilet, then moaned to colleagues in a WhatsApp group that it was ‘no emergency whatsoever’ has lost his fight to get his job back (DailyMail)
- Man sacked after having sex with boss’s wife in office loses tribunal – Man sacked after having sex with boss’s wife in office loses tribunal (EssexLive)
- Sacked Yorkshire staff are set to fight back against their dismissals after Azeem Rafiq’s whistleblowing on racism as they prepare to take their cases to the High Court – Four former employees formally triggered employment tribunals last week to start the legal process, after 16 had their jobs terminated in December (DailyMail)
- Iceland worker sacked for eating 20p Twirl wins £3,000 – Sharon Cassidy said she believed the opened multi-pack of Twirls belonged to another member of staff and colleagues often ate each other’s food which had been left at tills (KentLive)
- Woman sacked in sham redundancy because she is no good at social media – A 60 year old marketing assistant has won an unfair dismissal case after bosses ousted her because she was poor at social media (CoventryLive)
- Sacked woman wins £20,000 payout after boss shouted she ‘must be in her menopause’ – Leigh Best was working at upmarket pet food business Embark on Raw when owner David Fletcher made the comment “at the top of his voice” to the then-52-year-old, an employment tribunal heard (Independent)
- School worker who claimed she was sacked for her Christian beliefs after criticising plans to teach primary pupils about LGBT relationships appeals employment tribunal ruling – Kristie Higgs, 45, a pastoral assistant at Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire, was dismissed for gross misconduct in 2019 after sharing Facebook posts criticising plans to teach LGBTQ+ relationships at her son’s primary school (DailyMail)
- Cancer survivor on sick leave sacked over video of him passing friend a hose pipe – A cancer survivor on sick leave was spied on by private detectives and sacked when his company deemed a video of him passing a hose pipe to a friend to be evidence of “physical activity” (The Mirror)
- Woman sacked on the spot told ‘it’s your boyfriend or your job’ – She was dismissed from the stables owned by Lakeland Pony Treks when she refused to work at short notice because she had plans (The Mail)
- Female production line worker at car manufacturing firm Allied Vehicles wins sex discrimination claim after a male colleague suggested she was having a sexual relationship with a married man – Angela Smith, 48, quit her job after Stuart Getty made a ‘demeaning’ comment accusing her of showing favouritism to a co-worker because he claimed they were having a romantic relationship (DailyMail)
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