Your Account Sign In
Support Us
Subscribe
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Austerity Books Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Kashmir Labour Women's Football Workers' Rights
Latest editorial
Marching for Palestine makes a difference – we must not stop now
Advertise Contact us Shop Subscribe Support us Daily Alert
Austerity Books Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Kashmir Labour Women's Football Workers' Rights
Britain / 16 August 2018
Top solicitor calls for employment law reform after bound and gagged civil servant loses tribunal claim
Conrad Landin
Recent
Campaigners opposing the assisted dying legislation demonstrate outside the Palace of Westminster in London, ahead of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill's report stage, May 16, 2025
Assisted Dying Bill / 16 May 2025
MPs vote to return to assisted dying debate on June 13 after fractious five hours
16 May 2025
Bicester Motion Fire / 16 May 2025
Two firefighters and a member of the public die in former RAF base fire
16 May 2025
Palestine / 16 May 2025
Free Palestine, End The Genocide first national demo to take place since March
16 May 2025
Rich List / 16 May 2025
Labour must be 'a lot more energetic' tackling billionaire wealth after Sunday Times Rich List blip
16 May 2025
Climate / 16 May 2025
MP calls for superyacht and private jet tax to fund jobs, flood defences and home insulation
16 May 2025
Britain / 16 May 2025
Ukrainian remanded in custody charged with arsons on Starmer-linked properties
16 May 2025
Assisted Dying Bill / 15 May 2025
Royal College of Physicians raises fears over assisted dying Bill as it returns to Parliament
15 May 2025
Donate to the Morning Star Fighting Fund
Morning Star Shop

EXCLUSIVE

TOP solicitor Michael Newman called for a shake-up of employment law today after  Scottish civil servant DeeAnn Fitzpatrick, who was bound and gagged at work, lost her tribunal claim.

Fisheries officer Ms Fitzpatrick brought a bullying and harassment case to the Aberdeen employment tribunal after blowing the whistle on a campaign of anonymous abusive cards at Marine Scotland.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Become a subscriber
More from this author
The march passes by the refinery
Britain / 4 August 2024
Grangemouth workers vow to fight for their refinery's future
4 August 2024
The logo of the International Court of Justice, left, and th
World / 10 January 2024
South Africa can lead the world in ending the bombardment of Gaza, says anti apartheid veteran
10 January 2024
Israeli soldiers take up positions near the Gaza Strip borde
World / 7 January 2024
Palestinian ambassador to South Africa thanks it for ICJ case against ‘apartheid’ Israel
7 January 2024
Jacob Zuma, June 11, 2010
World / 7 January 2024
Expel Zuma from ANC, South Africa's young communists demand
7 January 2024
Similar stories
Sandie Peggie, a nurse at Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunferm
Features / 8 March 2025
A wake-up call for the trade union movement
8 March 2025
The Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife tribunal shows unions need to get up to speed with where the law stands on the requirement for workplaces to provide single-sex spaces, writes JANE McLENACHAN
The Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, central London
Britain / 25 November 2024
Court case against Spain to examine limits of state immunity in discrimination claims at embassies
25 November 2024
Britain / 14 August 2024
‘Contrived’ Cambridge Shakespeare Festival boss emerges as the real Shylock in employment tribunal
14 August 2024
Features / 22 May 2024
A tribunal decision that merits careful study by charities, unions, policy-makers and wider society
22 May 2024
In light of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre being found to have constructively dismissed a worker who held that service users should be able to know the sex of the staff they were seeing, ANN HENDERSON argues that lessons need to be learned in order to uphold women’s rights