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 14 March 2022 and 20 March 2022.
- Teacher taught students ‘flat Earth theory’ and said LGBTQ+ people are ‘from Satan’ – Design and Technology teacher Robert Headley taught students at Rokeby School in Canning Town about the flat Earth theory and said LGBTQ+ people being “descended from the Antichrist” (The Mirror)
- Sainsbury’s worker who groped female colleague and called another ‘Yummy mummy’ wins unfair dismissal claim after tribunal ruled his bosses failed to consider that behaviour was caused by head injury – Chris Kelly faced a series of complaints from fellow staff that he had groped one of them, talked about giving his wife multiple orgasms, and called female colleagues ‘b***h’ and ‘w***e’ (DailyMail)
- Mum falsely claimed boss stabbed her with biro and even faked gory ‘bloody wound’ pics – In the fabricated story, she claimed her manager Fawad Shaida stabbed her hand twice as he got up from his desk in February 2015 (Daily Star)
- Barrister fined for ‘mimicking and mocking’ opposing counsel – An employment barrister who mimicked and mocked opposing counsel and their instructing solicitor during a tribunal hearing has been fined £1,500 (The Law Society Gazette)
- Postman, 59, who was unfairly sacked for driving without a seatbelt and sticking his chewing gum on a customer’s gate lantern is awarded more than £17,000 in compensation – The 59-year-old postie – called G Harvey – had worked for Royal Mail for more than 25 years and he delivered mail on rural rounds from the Prestonpans office in Scotland (DailyMail)
- Man sacked for failing to provide sample due to shy bladder wins £90,000 – Railwayman Lewis Smith suffered from ‘shy bladder syndrome’ which left him too nervous to go to the loo when Network Rail called him in for the random check (SurreyLive)
- Professor sues university for £2.1m as sex harassment claim leaves him depressed – Dr Theodore Piepenbrock, 57, was accused of giving a junior colleague “excessive compliments” including that she had a ‘beautiful body’, a move which he claims led to unfair dismissal and victimisation (The Mirror)
- TV producer loses racism case after claiming BBC Sport interview panel laughed at her Indian accent – Malika Keswani alleged two of the three women on the all-white panel ‘chuckled’ when she was answering questions during an interview for a BBC Sport production manager job in Salford, Greater Manchester (DailyMail)
- Payout for staff at Chinese buffet which ‘shut after their first shift’ following lockdown – The owner of a Chinese buffet has been ordered to pay thousands to two former staff who only worked one shift (TeessideLive)
- Police chief who led controversial Ted Heath abuse inquiry at ‘Britain’s worst force’ had a ‘personal and undisclosed’ relationship with his head of standards and ethics, disciplinary hearing is told – Mike Veale’s relationship with Christiana Emsley was cited as the key reason for a ‘biased’ and ‘unfair’ investigation into a senior officer working at Cleveland Police, dubbed ‘the worst force in the UK (DailyMail)
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