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Pictured: Events planner who won £12k payout for disability harassment
- Latest: UK tribunal finds disability harassment and awards £12,000 to Sophie Stone for a supervisor’s 'get back in your box' remark.
- Stone has rejection sensitivity dysphoria and sought a break-out space at a summer party for coping with overwhelm.
- tribunal ruling: comment related to disability and constituted harassment and failure to make reasonable adjustments.
- Stone was awarded £12,000; other claims were dismissed.
- Case: MA Business Limited faced scrutiny over reasonable adjustments and workspace accommodations.
- Tribunal considered the impact of neurodivergence on workplace communication and support needs.
- Stone’s condition is described as ‘moderate to severe’ dyslexia with processing and memory challenges.
- Tribunal’s nuanced view on intent: comments may not reflect malice but still violate protections.
- Stone’s case underscores employer duty to accommodate neurodivergent employees in the UK.
- Tribunal's outcome could influence similar discrimination cases in UK workplaces.
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