A CHARITY worker has won 115,000 compensation after being wrongly sacked for whistleblowing on foul-mouthed colleagues calling disabled people “druggy bums” and “wastes of space”.
Catriona Robinson, 51, was "bullied" by fellow workers at mental health charity Mind after she raised fears about their four-letter foul language.
Miss Robinson told how she heard colleagues insulting mental health sufferers - and even accusing them of lying about their illnesses.
She was "ostracised and ignored" after blowing the whistle on a colleague doing an offensive impression of a severely disabled person while other workers laughed along.
An employment tribunal judge ruled the Monmouthshire branch of the charity "swept the matter under the carpet" to save itself - and had unfairly dismissed Miss Robinson.
The tribunal ruled: "There was frequent bad language and banter which overstepped the boundaries of acceptability in terms of equality and diversity."
Miss Robinson told the hearing she had witnessed foul language "daily", which was often followed by "prolonged episodes of raucous laughter".
She said: “Long discussions were held about clients having lied about their conditions/diagnosis, articulating there had been ‘nothing wrong with them and their being druggy bums and wastes of space.’
“Staff commented that the clients who were awarded welfare benefits as being unfair as they got more money than they received in wages.”
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