Another GC employment tribunal. Roz Adams vs Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre #2

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Claiming constructive dismissal for GC beliefs.

ERCC CEO is a well known transwoman know for controversial "reframe your trauma" remarks.

There was live tweeting from twitter.com/tribunaltweets or if Twitter doesn't show the tweets, look at https://nitter.net/tribunaltweets

Abbreviations:
J: Employment Judge McFatridge
RA: Roz Adams, the claimant
NC: Naomi Cunningham, barrister for the claimant
R or ERCC: the Respondent, Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
DH: David Hay KC, barrister for the respondent
KM: Katy McTernan, ERCC Senior management
MR: Mairi Rosko, ERCC Board Member
MS: Miren Sagues, ERCC Board Member
KH: Katie Horburgh, ERCC Board Member
AB: ERCC staff member (name redacted)
NCi: Nico Ciubotariu, COO of ERCC
MW: Mridul Wadhwa, CEO of ERCC
BP: Beira's Place

Witnesses:
Nicole Jones (NJ): 18 January 2024
Mairi Rosko (MR): 19 January 2024
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Thread #1: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4985570-another-gc-employment-tribunal-adams-vs-edinburgh-rape-crsis

And why did Nico drop out of this process?

It sounds like typing

NC is a very heavy typer

When you work with vulnerable and marginalised people you have to be able to centre them and their needs. We as workers take up as little space (physically and metaphorically) as possible. MW and AB seem to do the exact opposite.

22 nd Aug during interview you make reference to notes you'd made at training meeting. Yes

Is it correct to gather from this that there was a service user asking about the gi of someone who was supporting them at ERCC? It wasn't AB, AB being the only nb in the village. The service user was asking if the support worker was a tw.

Any recollection of hate folder . yes they concerned appointment of MW as CEO

Could it be Riddle?!

Hate emails fo lder: 're appt of MW

asked to do work about how to respond to these emails, to try and counter that negativity.

Doesn't know for sure who created hate folder, doesn't remember what it was renamed to

She knows exactly who made that folder

DH: the hate emails folder. What did those emails concern?

KT appt of MW as CEO

DH: What dealings did you have re creating folder

KT I didn't create folder and it was renamed. I was tasked c how best to respond to emails querying our service and su asking for support and how to explain to them, to counter some of the negativity of us appointing MW

DH Who created folder

KT don't know for sure.

Found RA to be a reliable member of staff with no issues.

RA was v reliable member of staff

KT also of the same opinion apparently

DH: What about RA at work

KT: RA was v reliable member of staff. No issues

DH: Kim Townsend's view?

KT: Similarly. RA good member of staff

Lunch time. Back at 2pm

I'm struggling to see how bringing up the 'hate folder' is beneficial to the defence.

Can someone clarify who exactly is being asked questions??

Same. Unless they know it will be brought up by the claimant, and they want to get their spin on it first

Im struggling to see how any of this is helping the defence. All it's showing is that their procedures were shoddy and not adhered to anyway. Going on about the data policy and implying RA should have been aware of it then asking the witness a question about the policy that showed she didn't remember it because she'd read it a long time ago

I suppose it gave them the chance to say that they did rename it to something more appropriate?

Maybe we’re going to get some marginalised and oppressed spin later and need the hate mail for that?

I wonder when it was renamed?

Well they've told us all about the change policy so presumably they will be able to identify who set it up and when it changed