A school dinner lady who won an appeal for unfair dismissal after revealing a case of bullying will get just £49.99 compensation because she deserved to be sacked.How very dare this woman go against the wishes of the school to keep what happened quiet?!
The tribunal at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, ruled that although the school failed to carry out a satisfactory investigation before sacking her, Mrs Hill would have been dismissed for going public with the information and was therefore not entitled to compensation from Essex County Council.So, it’s OK for the school to be incompetent, and to seek to deliberately hide the truth about an incident from a child’s mother, but not for someone to reveal that information?
And remember, the dinnerlady didn’t ring up the ‘Mail’ or the local paper straight away – she told the child’s mother about the incident.
The complaint to the newspaper came when they realised that the school hadn’t been truthful and the dinnerlady was suspended as a result…
A spokesman for Great Tey School and Essex County Council admitted the dismissal procedures had been flawed but said the tribunal had found against Mrs Hill in some areas, including that she was ‘not acting in good faith when speaking to the press'Whereas the headmistress who lied to the mother about what had happened to her child?
That was ‘good faith’, was it?
Anna Raccoon has also blogged this, and there's a fund set up for anyone who wishes to contribute. As Leg-Iron points out, with a bit of luck, every penny donated will give the Righteous angina...
6 comments:
A worthy cause indeed.
AN illustration of the nastiness of modern Britain. Donation made.
It has clearly had a very bad effect on her life and health........for doing what she believed was right (and how often have we heard that phrase from the fuckwits who 'govern' us).
State police involvement could have made it far worse.
A quadruple tasering, house wrecking and imprisonment were on the cards had those dark uniforms been deployed to 'find' evidence she purloined school dinners.
Calm down Melv!
... with a bit of luck, every penny donated will give the Righteous angina...
Actually, Julia, could someone just start a fund to give the Righteous angina? It would give them something real to complain about and eventually give everybody else some much needed peace and quiet. I suggest kicking things off with a huge benefit gig, possibly with Bono clutching his chest before stage diving into the crowd like a granny with her zimmer on a bungee rope. And then not coming out again.
The true purpose of this case has been achieved. Nobody will ever tell the truth about what happens in schools. They'll lose their jobs. They'll be dragged through tribunals. They'll be unemployable.
What's a little bad publicity when you can achieve all this through bullying a dinner-lady?
"AN illustration of the nastiness of modern Britain."
It is that. And far, far too many people seem to not just accept it, but welcome it. Check out the comments to the original article.
"Actually, Julia, could someone just start a fund to give the Righteous angina?"
:)
"The true purpose of this case has been achieved. Nobody will ever tell the truth about what happens in schools. "
Especially when this lady will no doubt be one of the first on the ConDem's brand spanking new Vetting and Barring scheme!
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