Bethan Littlewood arrived on time after travelling through the night, but her manager was ‘double booked’
Jesus, there’s far more to it than the headline implies! What a dickhead of a boss.
She reported Declan Morris, a new fitness manager, in June 2022 for carrying out a Ministry of Defence fitness test on someone who had an elevated blood pressure reading, which meant he should not have done it.
She only reported the matter after she had first raised it with him and he reacted in a “hostile manner”.
Ms Littlewood was informed that Mr Morris would have to go through “retraining” to make sure he was carrying out the tests in the right way.
From that month onwards, Mr Morris began withholding three hours of pay a week from Ms Littlewood.
Yeah, this was clearly about far more than just that headline.
This is years of retaliation and malice being not just actively covered up, but even upheld by Nuffield Health. Like this is a textbook example of illegal workplace conduct.
I’m glad she was rightly awarded monetary damages in the end, but she really deserved more for what she was put through - and those involved (particularly Mr. Morris) should’ve been punished.
Doesn’t seem to me to be enough. The dickhead manager was supported by multiple levels of management over years of harassment and I wonder how much wasn’t reported and documented.
What a shitty manager and company.
She deserves far better
Misleading headline, this was one example of many wrongs, some significantly more explicitly illegal:
She went to the employment tribunal, successfully claiming unfair dismissal, unauthorised deductions from wages, holiday pay, and being subjected to a detriment for making protected disclosure.
Given the pay claims, a significant portion of that money was clearly money she was already owed and earned anyway. This compensation probably wasn’t nearly enough.
