A whistleblower at Royal Mail who raised doubts about the legitimacy of how some staff were awarded bonuses should be awarded more than 100,000 after an employment tribunal ruled her bosses were guilty of ‘destroying her life’.
Kam Jhuti, heard the tribunal, had been intimidated and harassed by her boss after shadowing a colleague and reporting that some colleagues were “in effect defrauding the company”. She had started working for Royal Mail in London in 2013 after landing a 50,000-a-year role as a media specialist.
Jhuti had suffered from severe depression and post traumatic stress disorder as a result of her treatment after raising concerns of fraud. She was told that if her claims were unfounded her job would be under threat. She retracted her allegations but was told she was performing poorly and made to attend weekly meetings with her manager.
Jhuti’s concerns about bonuses were later validated by an expert, yet despite being vindicated she was put on a six-week performance improvement plan and told that if she did not comply she would fail her trial period.
A doctor eventually signed her off with work-related stress, anxiety and depression. She never returned to work and embarked on a seven-year legal battle, part of which involved a 2019 ruling in the Supreme Court that she had been unfairly dismissed.
It ended, after a number of appeals by Royal Mail, with a compensation order for 109,065, including 12,500 in aggravated damages for what the tribunal described as...
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