Effectively yes.
Its not ok. You can't do that. You can disagree, but you can't affect their work. Because thats prejudice.
I genuinely can't work out why the defence are using this as an argument they think is valid! They don't understand the law if they are.
RE All the comments about a union rep: HOW exactly would a union rep helped Sandie? They all support this nonsense. It'd just have been someone else in the room to bully Sandie. Sandie will have been well aware of that.
Ditto the referal to occupational health. I would regard that as pretty much being sent for re-education in the face of not being given equal hearing as to what happened with the other party being taken at face value rather than potentially having their own vexatious agenda. I mean, at school if two kids have an agreement, a teacher will rarely take sides without evidence or an adult witnessing the situation - and they will go to trying to understand communication issues BEFORE taking further action. Yet the NHS aren't even at the level of understanding how kids lie in the playground to get their own way and perhaps adults might do the same...
Indeed someone else points out on this thread:
Looking at the NHS suspension policy, it's recommended to find alternatives to suspension and for suspension to not exceed 4 weeks unless in exceptional circumstances. So bringing SP back to work on opposite shifts to DU is a sensible plan that should almost certainly have happened sooner.
Instead NHS Fife decided to act in a way that looking increasingly like School Playground Bullying for not being in the cool gang. It just looks like they wanted to suck up to the chief bully and were too scared to challenge.
As for Stern Demeanour. The 2025 equivalent of 'Smile Love'?