Company accountant wins £182K in age discrimination claim
A long-serving company accountant has received £182,000 in compensation after an employment tribunal found disciplinary charges were “trumped up” against him by his bosses as a way of forcing him to quit.
The Liverpool tribunal ruled that Warrington-based lubricant specialist Rock Oil unfairly dismissed and discriminated against John Peters, now 69, because management wanted him to retire.
Peters, who worked for the company for 16 years, went on lengthy sickness absence with work-related stress following a “hostile” int... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
