An accountancy firm worker with Crohn's disease has won more than £22,000 in a discrimination claim after her boss said the company needed to 'chart a different path' when she needed time off for treatment.
Ozgul Coban had been in the job for just eight weeks when Alper Ozcelyan messaged her to say he needed 'continuity' in the office, an employment tribunal heard.
If she was going to be 'on and off', he said, they should talk about 'charting a different path'.
The admin worker had been off for between six and eight days across the two-month period due to the inflammatory bowel condition, the hearing was told.
She took the comments from the senior manager to mean that he wanted her to quit her job and told him 'as you wish'.
