Posted on 02/10/2016 11:24:10 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Campaigners say tribunal finding in favour of Meseret Kumulchew highlights duty to make allowances for dyslexic staff
Starbucks has lost a disability discrimination case after it wrongly accused a dyslexic employee of falsifying documents when she had simply misread numbers she was responsible for recording.
Campaigners say the ruling highlights the duty of all employers to make allowances for staff with dyslexia.
In December, an employment tribunal found that Starbucks had victimised Meseret Kumulchew after she inaccurately recorded the water and fridge temperatures as part of her duties as a supervisor at Starbucks in Clapham, south-west London.
The tribunal heard that Starbucks accused Kumulchew of falsifying the recordings, reduced her responsibilities and ordered her to retrain. The stories you need to read, in one handy email Read more
A separate hearing to determine how much compensation Starbucks should pay will be held in the next few weeks.
Kumulchew, who is still employed by Starbucks, said she had made her bosses aware of her dyslexia, and the accusation of falsifying numbers had made her want to take her own life.
She told the BBC: “There was a point that I wanted to commit suicide. I am not a fraud. The name fraud itself shouldn’t exist for me. It’s quite serious.
“I nearly ended my life. But I had to think of my kids. I know I’m not a fraud. I just made a mistake.â€
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That’s “Ratscubks” to you!
I think it’s because they accused her of “falsifying”, not a mistake as a result of her dyslexia.
Sounds like a task that should be handled by another employee.
The last two items are logical, the first conclusion is not unless there is a lot more to this story then is in the article.
People write down numbers wrong, they read numbers wrong even without dyslexia.
I always run the numbers three times and then turn the tapes over to check that they all read the same. Being human I make mistakes. If it is really important then I have someone else check my work as well.
He was eeffoc to the snortap.
Am I a bad person for laughing out loud....?
Dyslexics Untie!!!
DNA = National Dyslexic Association
!Yloh tihs namtaB
Ummm...shouldn’t the headline read:
“Dyslexic employee wins discrimination case against BarStucks”
??
She thought she was working at Buckstars.
(ok, now I'll read the article)
Submitting a record such as this without ensuring it is correct *IS* falsifying the record. That record is Starbucks’ only defense against fines from inspectors, and by her recording incorrect data (apparently, multiple times) she puts the store at risk.
The store cannot use her dyslexia as a shield against its own liability, and now she gets to use it as a weapon against their bank account. If she cannot do the job, she should have not taken it.
Starbucks, in this case, is damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.
Or a color blind electrician.
Year ago I was a warehouse manager and we did have a blind forklift driver. Nice guy with a good work ethic, but he kept having forklift driving accidents. We sent him for an eye test and it turned out that he was legally blind. He hadn’t told anyone about his deteriorating eyesight.
Roses are red
violets are blue
I am dyslexic
and so am I
Why do you have to be such a Wet Heckler Museum?
In all seriousness, though I have often wondered about dyslexia. Early in my years it was explained by people getting letters swapped around and mixed up. It must be much more complex than that as we probably have all seen the things on the internet where paragraphs are built out of words where the first and last letter and the number of letters is correct, but the letters in between are garbage. Or the words are actually made from numbers. Or a variety of ways to scramble the words, including backwards and upside down. I can read these paragraphs nearly as fast as normal text. So it cannot be simple scrambling of letters because I can read that no problem. What I have trouble reading, however, are posts on FR where the quotes turn into random ascii characters, I wonder if it is more like that where the shapes of the letters themselves get all wonky which distracts my eyes enough to render the text unreadable.
Lemme tell you ‘bout my girl
I think she’s really sexy
And you know she really loves me
Even though I have dyslexia
And her name is
L (duhduhduhduh da da da da)
O (duhduhduhduh da da da da)
G (duhduhduhduh da da da da)
I (duhduhduhduh da da da da)
R arrrrrr....
L-O-G-I-R-A LOG-IR-A!
L-O-G-I-R-A LOG-IR-A!
Gonna shout it out every night LOG-IR-A!
Gonna shout it out every day LOG-IR-A!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
duhduhduh dadada duhduhduh dadada
duhduhduh dadada daaaaaaaaa!
If Starbucks were audited based on this recorded data, would they be able to claim it was an innocent mistake, or would they be fined?
I’m not finding much sympathy for a woman who should have known she was inadequate to the job. It’s not like she was diagnosed after she started.
The company is getting shafted at both ends. They are liable if she screws up (and not making sure her dyslexia doesn’t foul the record is *not* an innocent mistake). And they are liable if they hold her liable.
Falsifying the record, to my understanding, is the appropriate name for submitting a record as true data, when one is not certain that the data is correct.
Hey, you owe me a Mic Lite and a new keyboard, PAL!! ROTFLMAO
Meseret Kumulchew—Good Irish name, there.
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