Rachel Meade awarded exemplary damages

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c18e91c6-e124-4a6d-a491-87031e762e6d?shareToken=6c9d5a2ee8339d1d0efeb44de2f7782a

This has made me feel ridiculously cheerful today 🙂

Social worker Rachel Meade has been awarded exemplary damages of £58,000 against Social Work England and Westminster City Council. She was suspended from her job as a social worker due to her gender critical beliefs.

'Awarding the damages, the tribunal judge, Richard Nicolle, said that Social Work England’s actions constituted a “serious abuse of its power as a regulatory body”.
The judge said that the regulator had “allowed its processes to be subverted to punish and suppress” Meade’s lawful political speech, and to do so on grounds of her protected beliefs. In doing so it had violated her right to free speech as protected under human rights law.
The judge added that the regulator had a “pre-ordained view” that Meade’s beliefs were “unacceptable”.'

Planted a few seeds.

Me too

Rachel has raised over an astonishing £140,000 (and gradually rising), nearly £141,000. There are so many comments about her being inspiring and brave. I admire her so very much.

I hope that there might be another way for us to be to assist with the legal fees shortfall in the longer term. Or maybe she could personally sue any of the fuckers that brought her to this place - surely to god some of these cases that have been won outline clear cases of defamation and loss?

A deficit of £59K feels so punitive…

Maybe we need an FWR version of Task Rabbit/equivalent in which we donate proceeds from tasks and microtasks to fund these necessary actions. As ever, it feels like we need centralised funding for these cases (whenever it's been raised, there are all sorts of pragmatic reasons why it's not feasible).

Employers can break the law whenever they want as the costs of tribunals are so prohibitive to the employee even when they win.

I really hope you're right but so many of these organisations feel they are above the law and many drag their heels in making change. Some are downright shocked that the judgements go against them.

Lets hope, but they have found a way they think silences others, the punishment being the process. They are a bit dense these organisations (I say that to be kind!)

On another thread someone mentioned that

in order to get a job at Tesco you have to first sign an agreement that TWAW.

Does anyone know if this is against discrimination law?