Education Sector
Teacher's unfair dismissal claim dismissed by tribunal
Employment Law & HR update 04/05/2012
An employment tribunal has dismissed a claim for sexual
discrimination and unfair dismissal from a music teacher in
Northampton.
Sarah Cameron was employed by Quinton House School. She claims
that she was one of a handful of teachers on a “hit list’ put
together by the school’s head teacher. She claims to have found the
head teacher “cold and distant” from the very beginning of his
employment at the school in 2009. She had been working as a teacher
at the school since 1991.
She claims that a decision to move her music classroom away from
the main school campus made her feel “unsupported and isolated” and
that the head teacher became “rude, aggressive or dismissive” over
time.
The tribunal judge, however, ruled that Ms Cameron’s version of
events were not wholly reliable. The judge stated, “We are not
persuaded that the matters that did take place about which the
claimant complains took place as she alleged . . . or that there is
evidence from which we could conclude that [the head teacher] could
have behaved differently had the claimant been a man.”
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