A Muslim banker who lost his £130,000 job after emailing and calling his bosses on Christmas Day was unfairly dismissed, an employment tribunal has ruled. Joynal Choudhury, head of real estate at Gatehouse, sued the bank for unfair dismissal after he was made redundant in a company restructuring in August 2019. In the year leading … Read more
A university lecturer has won a £15,000 payout after being unfairly sacked from job for ‘aggressive’ behaviour – by sending too many question marks in text messages. Dr Binoy Sobnack, a physics lecturer at the University of Loughborough, created an ‘intimidating tone’ with his use of ‘multiple punctuation marks’, a tribunal heard. He was removed … Read more
Dr Olajide Ogunjimi was cleared of misconduct by a disciplinary panel after it agreed that the two police officers who handcuffed and tear gassed him during an arrest acted ‘unreasonably and disproportionately’ against the father-of-three (pictured) A hospital doctor who was handcuffed and tear gassed by ‘heavy handed’ police officers while being arrested has been … Read more
Aerospace company worker was sacked for calling white colleague with a black wife and mixed race children a ‘w*gger’, tribunal hears Brian Dumbrill used slur towards colleague while working for Hexcel Composite Offensive term usually used to insult white youths who adopt black youth culture His colleague Kevin Angus, who has a black wife, reported … Read more
A black teenager has won £16,000 after a tribunal ruled Topshop bosses were racist for calling her ‘thick’ and she was ‘earning a lot of money for someone like her’. Shaniqua McKenzie, who was 16 at the time, was asked by her bosses at a Topshop in Wimbledon, London, how her grandma could afford to … Read more
A drunk BUPA doctor was arrested as she tried to drive home from a 9am patient clinic following an evening celebrating her son’s promotion, a medical tribunal heard. Consultant Radiologist Dr Margaret Phelan, 67, attended a private hospital in Kensington, west London for a series of consultations despite still being intoxicated from the night before. The mother-of-three … Read more