21 h. ago Calling a colleague a 'nutter' could be workplace harassment, judge rules

A Croydon employment tribunal heard about the bitter falling out at the Royal Mail centre

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25 h. ago Calling your colleague a 'nutter' is unpleasant and hostile and could be harassment, judge rules

Calling your colleague a 'nutter' could be harassment, an employment judge has ruled the tribunal case of a Royal Mail worker at a mail centre in Croydon, South London.

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2 w. ago British boss found to be working remotely from Egypt was unfairly sacked, tribunal rules

Tanveer Shah was rewarded £61,419 in compensation for ‘unfair dismissal’

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2 w. ago A year on, Manchester City’s legal experts have the Premier League in a corner | Barney Ronay

Charges tribunal is still to report on rule breaches, but does the league want to discredit its eight-time champions anyway?Happy one-year anniversary! How has it been? How do you feel? More, or less, in love? Have you counted down the days? Are you happier, wiser, more centred, like a man in a porridge advert going for a soulful morning run in a sunlit cul-de-sac?Perhaps, to offer another perspective, you feel so viscerally nauseated at the prospect of leafing through the pre-planned partisan responses to a highly complex piece of legal wrangling there’s a danger your own intestines will liquefy and snort out of your nostrils straight into the toaster. Who knows? Maybe that was the point all along. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Doctor who left patient during operation to have sex allowed to practise

Medical tribunal rules ‘very low risk’ of Suhail Anjum, who had been dismissed by hospital in Greater Manchester, repeating behaviourA doctor who left a patient midway through an operation to have sex with a nurse is at “very low risk” of repeating his serious misconduct, a medical tribunal has ruled.Dr Suhail Anjum, 44, and the unnamed nurse were caught in a “compromising position” by a shocked colleague who walked in on the pair at Tameside hospital. The consultant anaesthetist had asked another nursing colleague to monitor the male patient, who was under general anaesthetic, so he could go to the bathroom. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Doctor who left patient during operation to have sex with nurse allowed to practise

Medical tribunal rules ‘very low risk’ of Suhail Anjum, who had been dismissed by hospital in Greater Manchester, repeating behaviourA doctor who left a patient midway through an operation to have sex with a nurse is at “very low risk” of repeating his serious misconduct, a medical tribunal has ruled.Dr Suhail Anjum, 44, and the unnamed nurse were caught in a “compromising position” by a shocked colleague who walked in on the pair at Tameside hospital. The consultant anaesthetist had asked another nursing colleague to monitor the male patient, who was under general anaesthetic, so he could go to the bathroom. Continue reading...

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last month Hearing male colleagues making sexist comments is harassment itself, tribunal rules after cales salesman left his job due to 'toxic atmosphere'

Male workers who hear colleagues being sexist about women can be victims of sex harassment themselves, a Cardiff employment tribunal has ruled.

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