Charity boss held personally liable in discrimination case

By Paul Jump, Third Sector Online, 12 July 2007

The chief executive of a midlands charity for deaf people has been ordered to personally compensate an ex-employee with severe hearing problems and epilepsy for discriminating against her on account of her disability.

Birmingham Employment Tribunal ordered the Walsall Deaf People’s Centre chief executive Colin Sanders to pay Jayne Fletcher £2,310 on Tuesday after agreeing at an earlier hearing to her claims for disability discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal. At the earlier hearing, tribunal chairman Paul Swann heard how Fletcher, a sign-language teacher,...

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