In November 2022, a tribunal originally decided that Royal Mail should pay 109,065 in compensation and 12,500 in aggravated damages to Jhuti, after she was ill-treated for raising concerns that a colleague had secured their bonus illegitimately.
The final total was set to be agreed between the parties at a later date.
When Royal Mail and the claimant’s solicitors could not agree on an award, Jhuti requested another hearing. This resulted in an award of over 2 million.
If awarded, it will reportedly be the highest ever payout the postal service has given, but Royal Mail has said it plans to appeal the amount.
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Simon Jones, director of HR consultancy Ariadne Associates, said the size of the award is due to the extremity of the case.
Speaking to HR magazine, he said: "These are the sorts of figures that scare employers about the tribunal system, so it is worth remembering that this was a particularly extreme case which, it appears, has wrecked the claimant’s career and caused her long-term psychological damage.”
The case dates to September 2013, when Jhuti was employed by Royal Mail as a media specialist.
The following month, she began to suspect a member of her team was breaching the company’s bonus policy, which Jhuti said helped the colleague effectively defraud the company.
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