Nicole Hogger, public relations employee with ADHD, sacked for being ‘disorganised’ wins disability discrimination case

Our thanks to Pete for this. The start of the piece:

“A public relations worker with ADHD who was fired for being ‘disorganised’ when she missed calls because she went to Starbucks, shopping, or for a massage, has won a disability discrimination case.

Nicole Hogger was described as being ‘disorganised’ by her manager after she missed a meeting without telling anyone she would be absent.

Miss Hogger would also miss calls because ‘she had been out for a massage, to Starbucks, or to the supermarket’, a tribunal heard. 

However, it has been ruled that using the word ‘disorganised’ to describe a co-worker can amount to disability discrimination under UK employment law.”

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2 thoughts on “Nicole Hogger, public relations employee with ADHD, sacked for being ‘disorganised’ wins disability discrimination case

  1. And people wonder why productivity has flatlined for well over a decade. So many “passengers”. No wonder there is a lucrative market in private diagnoses of Autism, ADHD for adult women. You can just please yourself and get away with it.

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  2. NHS sexist for using only men to look after violent patients In the Telegraph. To be honest my career was enhanced by being assigned to people with “challenging behaviour” as it gave me wider experience than female colleagues. However its good a man has won exposing a. sexist assumptions. b. males do the dirty/dangerous jobs and women hang back c. “equality” is a nonsense in reality as clearly it makes sense to use bigger “people” to deal wit things that need it. In reality I can see why the “sexist” choice is made and its logic, but also in the logic would be higher pay for greater risk and a specialist role. The latter creating a “gender pay gap”. I wish there were many more such cases too often women get all the rewards that men get, without actually doing the same job. The hospital managers may query “equality” a bit if they can’t allocate men to tough situations. If they allocate women they’ll “go off sick with stress” in my experience.

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