Landscape architect wins £60,000 race discrimination payout after being put on Royal Borough of Greenwich council panel to show off how diverse it was
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14308461/Landscape-architect-wins-race-discrimination-payout.html
Posted by KeremyJyles
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Reading the article and the details of this she sounds like an absolute nightmare to work with.
What a delightful insight into how our taxes are spent….
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Hope that £63k will see her through the rest of her adult life as nobody else will be stupid enough to give her a job.
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When will people realise being fucking annoying at work makes people not want to chat and co work
“The tribunal heard that before moving to the UK Mrs Karooma-Brooker had held a very senior role in local government managing several services.”
In.. Uganda?
It’s always good to know our taxes are being spent wisely though!
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This is why we should never strive to show off how diverse we are I suppose.
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The most striking thing in the judgment:
>39. In L Aboulossoud v (1) Royal Borough of Greenwich (2) Dawn Squires (2302090/2016), the respondent through Ms Squires had been found to have said a comment to the effect that residents of Bromley would not want to be buried next to Muslims, and that Muslims come in and take over. Ms Squires admitted saying the first part about burial but denied saying the second part about Muslims taking over. The Tribunal did not accept her evidence, finding instead that the comments were made because that is what two other witnesses said that Ms Squires said in a fit of anger or a ‘rant’. Although not relating to disclosure, it is necessarily relevant to this discrimination claim that Ms Squires had been found as a fact to have done something she denied, which was discriminatory and harassing. Ms Squires is the claimant’s head of department, and the person who had discovered the documents which were available to her prior to the start of the hearing.
When your manager has another adverse finding against them in a different employment tribunal, that you can use to shine light on their conduct against you in the litigation lol.
As a Greenwich council tax payer this is definitely the council spaffing our money up the wall by keeping on sub-par employees like Ms Squires.
Pop corn for the comment section at the ready.
Another baiting post in r/unitedkingdom from a baiting media source.
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It’s possible she has a justified grievance, but she used the word “microaggression” so I stopped reading and I guess I’ll never know. Probably not though.
Oh I just know how this sub is going to eat this up.
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Funny how this woman gets the race card to work for her when the article posted yesterday (about a white person blanked by Indians) didn’t.
Though it does sound like there was significant incompetence in attempting to defend the case.
Hopefully the lesson is to not hire people based on their skin colour to make diversity numbers look “better” in the first place.
£40,000 for loss of earnings, absolutely fair.
£20,000 for “Hurt feelings” is one of the most absurd things I’ve ever heard.
I’ve had colleagues injured at work, had their legs broken etc and get a thousand quid. Why is she entitled to twenty times that for her fucking feelings?
>’We take our responsibilities extremely seriously and this is underpinned by our clear, zero tolerance approach to discrimination, harassment, and victimisation of all kinds.
Then maybe don’t call someone silly if they raise concerns? I dunno, just a thought.