£25,000 compensation after failure to make adjustments for eye-disease sufferer

Veronica Lumsden has been awarded £25,000 compensation by an employment tribunal after she contracted a serious eye condition and was unfairly dimissed, reports The Scotsman.

Her employer, a catalogue shopping company, had dimissed Ms Lumsden on the grounds that her inability to drive meant that she could no longer carry out her role as area manager.

However, the tribunal agreed that the company had failed to make reasonable adjustments under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Ms Lums... (26 more words)

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