A former police officer has been handed more than £1m in compensation after it was ruled she had been discriminated against. Katrina Hibbert was a safeguarding sergeant with Thames Valley Police (TVP), working with victims of child sexual and drug exploitation in Cherwell and West Oxfordshire.
She had started a party and events business as a “positive outlet” to help her cope with the stress of her job, a tribunal heard. But she resigned from the force after it withdrew permission for her to run the business while she was off sick, which a judge found to be “discrimination arising from her disability”.
An occupational health nurse had suggested taking up a hobby could improve Ms Hibbert’s mental wellbeing, the tribunal was told. After getting business interest approval – which lets an employee pursue other lines of work outside their job – she began “creating and theming party tents”.
A doctor signed Ms Hibbert off with work-related stress in May 2019 after she learned a vulnerable young person she had been working with had died.
Source: BBC
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