Interesting. An extract:
“Sighing at a colleague at work in frustration could breach equality laws, an employment tribunal has ruled. Nonverbal expressions of disappointment or irritation could amount to discrimination, a judge said.
The ruling came in the case of a UK software engineer with ADHD who successfully sued a tech company for disability discrimination after complaining about his manager’s sighing and exaggerated exhales.
Robert Watson is now in line for compensation from Roke Manor Research, the inventors of the Hawk-Eye ball tracking system used at Wimbledon, in international cricket and in football.”
I assume his manager’s “sighing and exaggerated exhales” mean the person is probably of the female persuasion, amirite?
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I looked up the Judgment. In fact the frustrated manager was a “he” . As I suspected Mr. Watson was assisted in his, represented , by a colleague a “Miss Renvoise”. This fits with my experience that females are way ahead in the identification of reasons for “grievances”. Of course ADHD is a very recent addition to category “Disability” and unsurprisingly employers struggle with the ever growing parade of disabilities and diagnoses they supposedly have to make “reasonable adjustments” for. ADHD is still “highly contested” in the medical profession given that it originates in the diagnoses of Educational Psychologists and is not recognised by adult Psychiatry. If you read the case and judgements here EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS one can see why there is a waiting list for such diagnoses from adults. As usual the adjustments really mean doing less actual work, understandably frustrating for colleagues who are still required to turn up on time, meet deadlines, work overtime etc.
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