Harassment…..
by Philip
At PJH Law we deliver training to employers on dignity at work and harassment issues. Team members have over 15 years combined experience in delivering face to face training and our elearning dignity at work product is now over 2 years old.
When delivering face to face training we try to stimulate interest and debate by discussing, in general and anonymised terms, cases of harassment we have dealt with over the years. We also state that harassing someone because they are disabled is a rare event, with sexual or racial harassment being a far more prevalent claim.
Well the story reported here, you couldn’t make up, even as a far fetched case study exercise. An employee with thalidomide was harassed at work, with the harassment relating to her disability and her sex. The harassment, or so the Tribunal were told, included a works night out at the local bowling alley as a “team building exercise,”even though the employee only had 3 fingers on one hand and had one inch fingers on the other and could not hold a bowling ball. To add further humiliation to her existing embarassment, she was awarded the certificate mega flops at the end of the evening, after only being able to use the child’s bowling ramp.
You would imagine that the type of employer to allow this to happen would operate in a hard nosed, no nonsense industry sector. Wrong!The Company at the centre of allegations apparently organises therapy for dyslexic children, talk about leaving foxes to guard the chicken coop.
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