Tribunal | Royal Mail pays out over £2m after whistleblowing worker wins court case

Royal Mail has been forced to pay a former employee £2.3m in compensation following a tribunal which revealed the ex-worker had been intimidated and bullied after reporting potential fraud.

The former worker, Kam Jhuti, who was a media specialist at the postal company, was bullied, harassed and managed out of the business after raising concerns that a colleague had been given a bonus illegitimately, a Supreme Court judge ruled.

Jhuti joined Royal Mail in 2013, when only a month later she started to suspect a member of her team had secured a bonus by breaching company policies.

When she suspected this breach, Jhuti raised the issue with her manager, Mike Widmer, who reportedly coerced her to retract her statements. After this, she became the victim of a bullying campaign, resulting in her leaving the company in 2014. While, it was later confirmed that Jhuti’s suspicions were correct, and her colleagues were indeed handling bonuses illegitimately.