Starbucks employee left 'suicidal' after disability discrimination

A Starbucks employee has won a disability discrimination case against her employer, after she was accused of falsifying documents.

Meseret Kumulchew argued to a tribunal that Starbucks had acted unfairly toward her after she made several mistakes on work forms. Kumulchew has difficulties reading, writing and telling the time, which meant she struggled with certain tasks assigned to her.  

Kumulchew explained to the BBC how her manager began lessening her duties at work and told her that she would have to retrain. Which the employee says left her feeling suicidal.

Kumulchew was a supervisor at Clapham’s coffee shop, which meant that she was responsible for taking the temperature of fridges and water at specific times of the day, before recording the data into a duty roster.