Tell us something we don’t know…
by Philip
The Times report a case today involving the Home Office and a sex and race discrimination claim brought by two of its employees. The employees won.The Chairman in the case was, ahem, fairly frank in the decision. He said
“What happens when one of Britain’s least impressive managements, by its sole consistent attitude of procrastination, drives two long-service Asian women to become uncooperative and dismissive? The answer is systemic race and sex discrimination against them and dismissals unfair according to every tenet in the canon.��?
Well that’s pretty clear.
Readers may not be surprised to learn the following:
- The two workers had been sent home in 1990 on full pay because the Home Office did not have enough work for them.
- They made numerous complaints about the situation but to no avail, including the fact that sub-contract workers doing a similar job were paid more.
- When the end of their tether had been reached, they wrote to Charles Clarke, the then Home Secretary, to complain .
- Yes you guessed it they were then sacked.
I can now understand why the Home Office was described as not fit for purpose. Oh well better get back to work as the case is rumoured to have cost us taxpayers a cool 3 mill. Read it and weep.
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Such discriminations, I think, couldn’t be counter only with such cases. The nee dis to change society’s thinking.
slatch said at February 23rd, 2007 at 1:16 pm