AA driver wins £22k payout over sacking for ‘incredibly inappropriate’ joke
A AA Rescue Driver with Autism won more than 20,000 £ payment Discrimination of disability was dismissed after joking about leaving his colleagues “heads”.
Adrian Lloyd-Penny said that during a telephone conversation, the night manager Lyndon Tyler and his distributor Dave Boddison would leave the pair from a third-storey Bl ** DY window ”.
Bay Lloyd-Penny, who worked in the Enfield depot in North London and joined AA in March 2023, was later told that he could not exceed his supervision after finding his comments “incredibly inappropriate”.
He then sued his employer for disability discrimination, because he made autism difficult to process and made “melting” more likely.
The court in Watford decided that the employer did not prove that there were less discriminatory measures to solve problems, although the employer’s “action” is appropriate against the explanations.
The Court saw a transcription from a phone call he told a processor: “Aaahh, I hope I have to meet the manager I have never been dealing with or Dispatcher who gave me this job, because I will leave them from the third -storey Bl ** DY window.”
Mr. Lloyd-Penny apologized to the same shift, the court heard.
Mr. Tyler directed Transcript to the administration and said that Mr. Lloyd-Penny could be good in a call and could be “controversial and irrelevant” in the other.
However, he and his officer said that they thought they thought he was “no crime” and “clearly joke”, but Mr. Tyler added that kişi Someone whose conditions are different can take this call and get very upset ”.
The same month driver was invited to a controlled freedom investigation meeting with Michael Townsend, the manager of Michael Townsend, who was dismissed in order to “shout and swear”.
When asked if he remembered whether he was a joke about leaving his colleagues from the “best story window ,, Mr. Lloyd-Penny added that the couple“ exacerbated ”and“ I can’t control my autism ”.
The Court approved Mr. Lloyd-Penny’s claims of discrimination of disability, because the employer violated Mr. Lloyd-Penny about the possibility of giving information about the possibility of instructional orientation.
Employment Judge Patrick Quill said that it would be reasonable to tell AA’s call processors that it would be reasonable to say that there is no choice but to endure any abuse, but they refused the claim that there is no more options for the employer.
Other claims made by Mr. Lloyd-Penny were rejected.
The court was evaluated with an additional injury worth £ 11,000 with an interest rate of £ 1,668.38, as well as financial damage at £ 8.138,28 with an interest of £ 1.113,05.
