In the Island’s first case involving a compensation order for ‘hurt and distress’, the Jersey Employment and Discrimination Tribunal upheld Ryan Flanagan’s claim he had been victimised, and said that further claims of harassment and unfair dismissal were ‘well founded’.
However, the panel ruled that the shop worker, who was employed by Island Greetings Ltd, had not suffered direct discrimination following allegations that his employer failed to follow a reasonable grievance process and that he had been selected for redundancy based on his sexual orientation.
A recently-published judgment describes a series of discussions taking place at the shop after staff saw the Island’s first Gay Pride march walking through St Helier last September.
Read more in Friday’s JEP
