The future of OJAR

[Tiger_mate]

1. As the RAF have just lost a court case involving discrimination within an OJAR, has the time come when due to having to moderate the tone and content of an OJAR, the said document is now not worth the paper that it is written on. I myself was `advised` regarding making comment about `private lives`, yet understand the life of a serviceman to be more tham Mon-Fri 8 till 5.

2. A case lost in court rather then the standard out of court = no precedent is bound to have repercussions.

3. Now where is that pension v flying pay file:

Ref: Crown v RAF Policewoman (cpl) from Cosford, with appraisal drafter in the dock!

[left one o clock]

Are the details of this case in the public domain as I have seen nothing in the press etc? If so, where?

[Molesworth Hold]

I think this is what TM is on about. From the local rag (Shropshire Star)23 Oct

RAF woman's tribunal win
By PETER JOHNSON
A former RAF policewoman from Shropshire, who was downgraded by her boss after complaining about his offensive sexual comments at a training session, today won her claim of sexual discrimination
Mother-of-two Catherine Brumfitt was branded "incompetent, lazy, racist and untidy" by Sergeant John Fitzpatrick after she blew the whistle on his behaviour at RAF Cosford.
But an employment tribunal says Sergeant Fitzpatrick, who had a reputation as a bully, had tried to get his own back by blackening Mrs Brumfitt's character and ability in his official appraisal of her work.
In a scathing report, highly critical of both Sergeant Fitzpatrick and the RAF generally, the panel declares: "We have no doubt the assessment was a deliberate denigration of her as a result of her complaint."
The tribunal's written judgement, released today after a hearing at Birmingham, upholds Mrs Brumfitt's claim that both the Ministry of Defence and Sergeant Fitzpatrick were guilty of sexual discrimination in her annual appraisal of February 2002.
Former Acting Corporal Mrs Brumfitt, 32, of Albrighton, near Shifnal, who had previously received excellent appraisals, quit her 13-year job with the RAF Police after complaining about Sergeant Fitzpatrick's behaviour during a training course on rape and sexual offences in February 2001.
Mrs Brumfitt, who had been based at RAF Shawbury, said he had used foul language and crude remarks including the use of a Maglite torch smeared with tomato ketchup and mayonnaise as a supposed weapon of sexual assault.
The panel said: "Clearly, he thought it funny to treat even serious sexual matters in this way and the cruder his approach, the funnier it would be.
"The truth, sadly, is that Sergeant Fitzpatrick was entirely insensitive."
The tribunal found he had no deliberate intention to offend anyone and no perception that women might find his conduct more offensive than men.
But it criticised his "vitriolic" approach to Mrs Brumfitt.
Mrs Brumfitt, now a driving instructor, is described as a "competent, truthful and compelling witness".

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[Hueymeister]

It's such an incongruous form to fill out..and seemingly contradictary too..now try explaining the intracies to your 1st RO in a foreign language..and PMA wondered why it was late?