Overview
- The tribunal ruled in May 2026 that Marina Dudding was unlawfully discriminated against after the council revoked her established hybrid working and later dismissed her.
- Judge Caoimhe O’Neill found Dudding’s diagnoses of generalized anxiety disorder, a moderate depressive episode and agoraphobia each substantially impaired daily functioning and that home working materially supported her performance.
- The council removed Dudding’s hybrid arrangement on 24 October 2023 and kept an office-only requirement in place without documented, individualised evidence or a review mechanism while other team members retained hybrid options.
- Tribunal findings said the council knew or should have known of her condition from occupational-health advice and contemporaneous emails but failed to consider or make reasonable adjustments before disciplining and sacking her.
- The judgment orders compensation for Dudding and signals that UK employers must carefully assess remote-work requests as possible reasonable adjustments, though the ruling is a tribunal decision rather than binding higher-court precedent.