You really can’t make this stuff up. A male nude model has been
awarded more than £10,000 in compensation after taking two counts of sexual
discrimination to court and subsequently won both. Andrew Rogers, aged 62 was a
life model at Weston College, Somerset for 25 years and was made redundant in
2012.
Mr Rogers joined an agency to look for more work with the
accompaniment of a female colleague. Through the agency, Mr Rogers was told of
work available at Weston College, the same place where he was made redundant.
Mr Rogers duly applied, but he was denied the position while the female colleague
got the job. The life model in question decided to
take Weston College to an employment tribunal and subsequently won
and he was awarded £6,230 in compensation.
Not willing to give up, Mr Rogers decided to apply for further
work with the college when they were advertising a further time. Unfortunately
his application was again denied while the same female colleague, who got the
job previously, was given the job again.
Exasperated, Mr Rogers
took the college to court again and was awarded a further £5,000. There are no
loop holes to this case, the employer discriminated against the former employee
on the basis of gender, plain and simple and this should act as a word of
caution to others.
