£26,000 compensation for worker sacked for 'offensive' emails

National press attention has been caught by a compensation award of £26,000 to a lesbian worker, who was dismissed after using her work email to send sexually explicit emails to her partner.

Helen Brearley, a designer at shop-fitting firm Timber Tailors, was dismissed for gross misconduct when the company monitored her emails and discovered that she had exchanged more than 300 personal messages with her partner in 15 weeks, 36 of which the company said were sexually explicit or contained ba... (94 more words)

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