Indian-origin employee wins ₹2.5 cr from Royal Mail in UK; marks largest compensation settlement value

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₹25 crore compensation from the company in the United Kingdom, after her bullying claim was upheld. The compensation settlements is being dubbed as one of the largest made till date.  The employee Kam Jhuti, had claimed that she had been intimidated and harassed by her boss after she raised concerns that a colleague had secured their bonus illegitimately. The claim made dates back to an incident eight years ago.

Jhuti made the claims before an employment tribunal in UK. The tribunal went on to find that there had been a “catastrophic" impact on her over her boss’ treatment of her, The Daily Telegraph reports. “The tribunal makes a total award of GBP 2,365,614.13, payable by the respondent to the claimant," reads an official remedy decision added to the long-running case this week.

“Subject to the paragraph below, payment of the award is stayed pending the outcome of the respondent’s (Royal Mail) appeal against the tribunal’s original judgment on remedies which was sent to the parties on October 3, 2022. Both parties have the liberty to apply to lift this stay," it reads. “Of that total award, the respondent (Royal Mail) will, however, make payment of the sum of 250,000 pounds gross to the claimant; the stay does not, therefore, apply in relation to this sum.

The parties agreed that the respondent will pay this sum to the claimant within 14 days of the date of this hearing," it adds. Earlier, the tribunal had concluded that the postal service had been “high-handed, malicious, insulting and oppressive" in how it had conducted the case. A 2019 Supreme Court hearing was told that Jhuti started work as a 50,000 pounds per year media specialist at the Royal Mail’s MarketReach unit based in London in September 2013.