Sexist Treatment ‘Detrimental’ but no Damages
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“Ms Bullock sought two years salary totalling almost $100,000, another $10,000 for humiliation and loss of dignity and $8000 for being held back from promotion.”
Sexist treatment ‘detrimental’ but no damages
NZPA | Wednesday, 19 March 2008
The Human Rights Review Tribunal said today Josie Bullock, the Corrections Department probation officer who refused to sit behind men at a Maori function in 2004, suffered “detrimental treatment” because of her sex.
But the tribunal said sexism was not a factor in her subsequent dismissal and threw out her claims for damages.
Ms Bullock immediately issued a statement claiming she had been “vindicated” by her stance against sexism in the department.
But she added her failure to win damages was a slap in the face.
The zero award was saying, “yes, the department was sexist, but hey, it doesn’t matter and it hasn’t affected you.”
She added: “It’s a slap in the face to me and all women, as it means employers can treat women in a sexist way and not suffer consequences.”
Ms Bullock sought two years salary totalling almost $100,000, another $10,000 for humiliation and loss of dignity and $8000 for being held back from promotion.
The long-running affair started at a Corrections Department poroporaki in Auckland in December 2004.
Ms Bullock was asked to move to the back of the ceremony for offenders graduating in a departmental programme — a move she said was because of her gender.
She sat down in the front row refused to move when asked to do so.