A 66-year-old health worker who was sacked the day before age discrimination regulations came into force has won back her job in a "landmark" victory. She was told she would receive 11 weeks' pay rather than the 11 months' pay she would have been entitled to if she had been dismissed a day later. Unison took up the case and planned to fight for her reinstatement at an employment tribunal. The union has now announced that the trust agreed to give the woman her job back along with back pay from last October. Unison said, “There is no doubt that the decision to dismiss … was fuelled by the debt crisis at the NHS Trust. A new policy on age discrimination has been agreed with the trust and (she) is now able to return to the hospital to a job she clearly did well and enjoyed”.
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