
Sacked employees win race claim against care home
20th August 2014 | Employment Issues
A care home has lost its appeal against a race discrimination claim made by two of its dismissed employees. The case involved a number of staff including an African care worker, an Asian deputy manager and a senior manager, who was white. The dismissals followed the inappropriate administration of medication to a patient in the care home. The home’s regulations stated that a supervisory document had to be signed by a doctor before a patient’s medication was changed, and had to be...