An IT worker who has been on sick leave for 15 years sued IBM for not raising his $67,000 salary while he was off work. A judge threw out the case.
A British IT worker who has been on sick leave since 2008 sued IBM for not giving him a pay raise during the time he was off work.
But an employment judge struck down the case, saying the claims did not amount to disability discrimination and that, if anything, the worker had received favorable treatment,Ian Clifford, 50, started sick leave in September 2008 for mental-health-related reasons and was still off work in 2013, having been diagnosed with stage-four leukemia, when he raised a grievance that said he had not received a salary increase or vacation pay during those five years, perIn April 2013, Clifford reached...
"The point of the plan was to give security to employees not able to work," Clifford's claim said."That was not achieved if payments were forever frozen."Paul Housego, an employment judge, dismissed the case in March, saying in the judgment:"It is not disability discrimination that the plan is not even more generous."
He added that the payment plan was"very substantial" and that Clifford had been treated more favorably than"those not disabled" because he was being paid without having to work.that he took legal action not because he was"greedy" but because he wanted to provide financial security for his family and his son, who was at university. He said that he had already appealed the ruling, per The Telegraph.
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