He receives a salary of over £54,000 a year and is guaranteed to receive the payment until he is 65
A senior IT worker who has been on sick leave for 15 years took his employer to court for discrimination because he hasn't been given a pay rise.
During the tribunal in Reading, Berkshire, the court heard Mr Clifford - who studied at King's College London - started working for Lotus Development in 2000 before it was acquired by IBM. In April 2013, when Mr Clifford was in his mid-30s, a "compromise agreement" was reached and his complaints were settled by putting him on the company's disability plan.
The plan was fixed in place for more than 30 years until he reached the retirement age of 65, meaning he will receive a total of over £1.5 million. He said he had been treated 'unfavourably' with no salary increase since 2013, holiday entitlement and compared himself to a non-disabled employee who would have been paid their full salary during holidays.
"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.
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