To be incensed that a man cost council tax payers £63,000 for insisting he had a gender fluid Daschund?

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£63,000 could have paid for an awful lot of things for the poorest families in Cambridgeshire, instead, thousands of hours and a huge pile of cash has been paid out because of some dickhead, virtue signalling in a meeting

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/gender-neutral-daschund-social-worker-wins-63-000-discrimination-payout/

This brave woman did what we all need to do, stood up, called bullshit on something patently absurd, and instead of supporting her, her bosses called her "nasty" and excluded HER from meetings! She's a social worker!

WTF is going on? Is it the backwards decade where we all do the opposite of what's sensible?

It says in the article that it was approximately £55,000 compensation and £8000 legal costs

I'd imagine the council's insurance will pay this so it's not as if that money would have been used for housing etc.

But the important point is that she won the right to be able to express GC views

This whole thing is so stupid I can't even 🤦‍♀️

Whilst it cost the council money in fees, do you not think she should have brought a claim having been disciplined and lost earnings for her beliefs?

Wordsmithery · Today 08:52

Of course, the papers have reduced the situation to absurdity, because that's what papers do. The real issue is the woman who has a history of being outspoken and, from the sound of it, really quite nasty to her colleagues.

How very dare she be outspoken, indeed. She should obviously shut up and agree with any old rubbish anyone comes out with....

Any proof that she's nasty to her colleagues? Or did you just make that up on the spot?

I suspect the council gave in because they realised they'd mismanaged the situation in allowing things to get this far.

A more likely explanation is that, given the case law in this area, to wit, having reality based, sex realist views is well and truly WORIAD, they played brinkmanship, hoping that she'd fold and their barrister explained that they didn't have a hope in Hell's chance of winning.

You know, on account of them illegally harassing her.

But the important point is that she won the right to be able to express GC views

And also they've got to update their training, which will hopefully be of lasting benefit

Not only that, but Anya Palmer, GC barrister who worked on the Forstater case, has to write it.

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we have someone from this org. on this chat, I bet they don;t see any updates to this for a loooong time.

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Seems to be happening rather a lot nowadays - https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5168045-free-speech-union-meeting-evicted-from-brighton-pub

Sounds good - hopefully other councils (and maybe other orgs too) will adopt it in order to save themselves similar embarrassment, money and time.

dreadful behaviour by the council. Council HR allowed this to spin out of control. Unbelievable that a bloody dachshund has cost local residents so much money. Why was the dog’s owner allowed to involve their dog in a business meeting? Cambridge HR need to rewrite policies PDQ

It's fine, it's only public money which nobody seems to care about.
Wonder how many people are held accountable after rulings like this. That would be none on current estimates. Then councils can't afford to provide their statutory obligations and blame everyone apart from themselves. There are numerous examples like this everyweek and thousands wasted on instructing solicitors and barristers. Then it's bleat, bleat, bleat for working people to cough up more of their earned money to fund it all.

Have any names of senior managers who either authorised or encouraged this fiasco?
Specifically do we know the name of the head of HR or Head of Legal Services for instance?
Has anyone been through the websites of the Council already?

Legal aid is not available to employment tribunal claimants. They can represent themselves or be represented by a trade union official or other adviser or family or friend or they may be able to get legally qualified representation through a charity or law centre that provides free advocacy.

You image wrong. Local Authorities can not get insured for this snd haven't for decades. And insurance paying out for Council mistakes has a direct impact on premiums and therefore money available for provision of services. It's strange to minimise it because you think insurance will pay. This payment will be straight out of their budget, along with all the employee hours invedtigating, responding and providing info for tge case that are non legal snd that are never costed but are very substantial.

please do. an FOI request can come from anyone, any time, just an email

It's fine, it's only children's services which nobody seems to care about.
It's fine, it's only women which nobody seems to care about.
It's fine, it's only families which nobody seems to care about.

Men in Dresses - TOP OF THE QUEUE

It's long overdue that people who sanction institutionalised bullying of women in the workplace are held to account when found out.
Suspect this would have been a doozy of a case had it been heard with a number of unhinged staff demonstrating how unfit they are to work in the public sector. But they are enabled by managers and HR and it's time these well paid people were forced to to account for their actions.

Idk I used to work for a college & there was a tutor who used to actually think their dog was an actual person, dressing them up like a child. It's a bit weird but whatever makes people happy I guess.

Why was the dog’s owner allowed to involve their dog in a business meeting?

It's not clear whether the dog was there, but I think he had an Instagram account (of course) so maybe the Dog Dad just showed that?

It's like we're living in an Orwelian dystopian novel...

Why was the dog’s owner allowed to involve their dog in a business meeting?

Pablo was taking the minutes.

It was a video meeting. Tbf my dear old dachshund occasionally made a comment or two during my work zoom meetings. Another colleague had a vocal chicken.

“Like”?

It was a video meeting. Tbf my dear old dachshund occasionally made a comment or two during my work zoom meetings. Another colleague had a vocal chicken.

Ah, yes, forgot it was on video.