The legal team representing NHS Fife nurse Sandie Peggie have confirmed they will appeal an employment tribunal ruling, as well as two corrected versions of it.<\/p>\n
Peggie was suspended from her job in a Kirkcaldy hospital’s A&E department after she complained about transgender doctor Beth Upton – a biological male who identifies as a woman – using a female changing room.<\/p>\n
She took NHS Fife to tribunal where she won a claim for harassment against the health board, but other allegations of discrimination and victimisation were dismissed. All claims against Dr Upton were also rejected.<\/p>\n
The ruling published<\/a> on 8 December has been amended twice after complaints that a quote used in it was made up, and a number of clerical issues<\/a> were raised.<\/p>\n In a statement, Peggie’s legal team said the appeal covers the original ruling itself, a first correction that rewrote a key passage on how protected characteristics are balanced, and a second round of amendments which altered the wording of several substantive paragraphs.<\/p>\n Speaking after the ruling in December, Peggie vowed not to give up her legal fight.<\/p>\n At a press conference she said: “Whilst I am delighted that the tribunal was critical of Fife Health Board and found they harassed me, their judgement I believe falls short in many respects and that is why I certainly won’t be giving up this legal fight any time soon.”<\/p>\n The 312-page judgement, found in Peggie’s favour on four counts but dismissed her other claims against both the health board and Upton.<\/p>\n It said some of her comments towards the doctor “amounted to an incident of harassment” and breached the health board’s bullying and harassment policy.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for NHS Fife previously said: “We acknowledge the claimant’s right to appeal in line with the Employment Tribunal process.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legal team representing NHS Fife nurse Sandie Peggie have confirmed they will appeal an employment tribunal ruling,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}