Clarity & Co in Highams Park More than 60 blind or disabled workers won an extra 13 weeks of wages from their former employer today. A judge ruled Clarity & Co, a cosmetics company based in Jubilee Avenue, Highams Park, failed to warn staff it would be sold, despite knowing it was in financial difficulties for more than a year. Clarity, a charitable enterprise set up in 1854 to help disabled people find work, was sold to Nicholas Marks on January 31 last year, with Pioneers Post reporting that all 85 jobs were thus saved. However, last month, Community union told the BBC it was representing around 60 people made redundant by the company, who alleged their wages and furlough pay have been withheld.
Victoria Scott, 49, claims she was forced out of her job at Chigwell School, Essex
She claims she had to quit as a protest at having to work with Howard Ebden
She alleges Ebden said a girl, 16, should be more of a c teaser in an audition
Mr Ebden admits making the comment during a rehearsal for the opera Carmen
Judge found Mrs Scott wanted Mr Ebden fired over the ill-advised phrase used
A music teacher at a top private school felt forced out of her job after blowing the whistle on a colleague who demanded a 16-year-old schoolgirl be more of a c teaser during auditions, a tribunal heard yesterday.
The East London Employment Tribunal heard Victoria Scott, 49, taught singing at £30,000-a-year Chigwell School in Essex for four years until May 2018 when she quit Aer post in protest at having to work with Director of Music Howard Ebden, 46.
Mrs Scott, a mother of three, alleges a catalogue of incidents culminating in a lewd remark made to a sixth form girl performing L amour from French composer George Bizet s opera Carmen (1875) during an audition at the prestigious boarding school on March 13, 2018.