A lesbian police watchdog worker lost her sexual orientation discrimination claim at tribunal after she engaged in behaviour that her manager described as “verging on stalking”.
Mary Coulter, an IT service desk analyst at The Scottish Police Authority, repeatedly sent her line manager messages that suggested she had romantic feelings for her and sent a card and gifts to her home address.
The authority led an informal disciplinary process against her requesting she stop her behaviour, and later moved her and other colleagues to another line manager’s team.
Coulter claimed this was sexual orientation discrimination, but the tribunal struck out her claim, siding instead with her employer that her behaviour was “inappropriate”.
“Businesses must have a clear and comprehensive policy on harassment and stalking and the consequences of any incidents should be clear to employees in this,” Hussain Kayani, head of team and solicitor at employment law, HR and health and safety consultancy WorkNest, told HR magazine.
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