Welsh Lidl employee awarded £50,000 for unfair dismissal over not having a degree
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-05-13/lidl-employee-unfairly-dismissed-for-not-having-a-degree-wins-tribunal
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Welsh Lidl employee awarded £50,000 for unfair dismissal over not having a degree
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-05-13/lidl-employee-unfairly-dismissed-for-not-having-a-degree-wins-tribunal
Posted by F0urLeafCl0ver
5 Comments
For the inevitable people who won’t read the article…
This makes a lot of sense. It was indirect age discrimination because as a person in his 60s he was far less likely to have been able to go to university than the two consultants in their 30s who kept their jobs after the restructure. The normal or common route to this particular role now would involve a degree, it didn’t then.
They should have made their decision based on performance in the role and not an arbitrary thing that hadn’t made any difference to his performance in the role.
My word. Your degree doesn’t count for anything once you’ve been working in a field for 10 years let alone 40+ years.
Pretty much 90% what you learned at uni won’t apply to the industry lol
Only being awarded £50k is a disgrace. Man’s old, how likely are they to find another job and as retirement is coming.
Yeah, that makes sense, if a degree wasn’t advertised as being required for the role in the first place, it shouldn’t have any bearing on the decision to make someone redundant or not. It’s like sacking a neurosurgeon for not having their HGV1 licence. Totally nonsensical.