Dismissed! Appeal AND Greivance?

BISHOPS

Good points rasied chaps.

Evidence - things I came across in my normal course of duties and would normally be expected to have to do my job - and I worked a bit from home so have them in printed form. I am required to give everything back at the end of employment, but as they are material to my case I am retaining them. Not theft. Totally reasonable for me to have ended up with them at the end of my employment and totally reasonable for me to retain them if they form part of my defence in such a serious case.

Yes made complaints of victimisation at the time.

Different rules/standards were applied to me by my manager in dismissing me. I am male, my colleagues are female. Intention may have been to bully and dismiss the newbie - however Intention is irrelevant in UK sex discrimination law. The fact is that I was treated differerently from my (exclusively) female colleagues.

ILW

Are you sure they just did not like you, and it is nothing to do with you being the only male in the department?
What actual examples of sexism did you experience?

SarEl

BISHOPS wrote: »

Good points rasied chaps.

Evidence - things I came across in my normal course of duties and would normally be expected to have to do my job - and I worked a bit from home so have them in printed form. I am required to give everything back at the end of employment, but as they are material to my case I am retaining them. Not theft. You are required to give everything back at the end of your employment, you did not. That is the definition of theft. Whether you worked from home or not is not relevant.

Totally reasonable for me to have ended up with them at the end of my employment and totally reasonable for me to retain them if they form part of my defence in such a serious case. No, certainly not. There was a case in the EAT - one of the northern health trusts sued for race discrimination. The evidence was stolen. One of the reasons the EAT ruled against the claimants was the fact that their evidence was stolen.

Yes made complaints of victimisation at the time.

Different rules/standards were applied to me by my manager in dismissing me. I am male, my colleagues are female. Intention may have been to bully and dismiss the newbie - however Intention is irrelevant in UK sex discrimination law. The fact is that I was treated differerently from my (exclusively) female colleagues.

I am sorry but you have no evidence that you were treated differently because you were male in this matter. You say that others were not disciplined or warned about their errors, but you cannot possibly prove that. If they had been the circumstances of those events are confidential, and facts that you are not privy to. There is also a matter of degree - if another worker who has been employed for ten years makes an error, say, every three months, they may be pulled up over it. Someone who has been there for nine weeks and makes multiple errors may be dismissed. This is not unfair, and it isn't sex discrimination.

You have alleged discrimination and that means that in the first instance the burden of proof lies with you - I cannot see how you will prove that to the satisfaction of a tribunal.