An IT worker who's been on sick leave since 2008 has tried to sue his employer for discrimination – because he hasn’t had a pay rise in that time. He earns over £54,000 a year, but claims it's ‘not generous enough’.
Mr Clifford told the tribunal that with inflation now running at over 10% the ‘value of the payments would soon wither’.
‘The complaint is in fact that the benefit of being an inactive employee on the Plan is not generous enough, because the payments have been at a fixed level since April 6, 2013, now 10 years, and may remain so. ‘This contention is not sustainable because only the disabled can benefit from the plan. It is not disability discrimination that the Plan is not even more generous.
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