An ex-Royal Mail employee who was dismissed for whistleblowing has been awarded more than 2.3 million in compensation, following a lengthy legal battle.
In 2019 the Supreme Court found that Ms Jhuti, a media specialist who worked in Royal Mail Group’s MarketReach unit, was unfairly dismissed and suffered detriments after she raised concerns that Ofcom guidance was being breached, and about how some employee bonuses were being awarded.
Detriments included being bullied, harassed and intimidated by her manager, who imposed mandatory weekly one-to-one meetings and targets solely on the claimant; being asked to provide her key contacts from her previous employment; and being invited to accept three months’ pay, and subsequently, a year’s salary, to leave Royal Mail.
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It was also found that Royal Mail had deliberately failed to provide an outcome to her grievance and appeal in a timely manner.
Jhuti went off sick and left the company in 2013.
An employment tribunal hearing to discuss compensation for unfair dismissal was originally scheduled for 2016, but was postponed as there were several appeals over a number of years, culminating in the Supreme Court’s 2019 judgment which finally determined that she was automatically unfairly dismissed.
Jhuti claimed she had suffered severe...
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