Senior staff can sue if given ‘low status’ desk, UK tribunal rules

An employment tribunal in Watford concluded being made to sit where junior staff work could ‘logically’ lead a senior employee to conclude they had been demoted. Photograph: PeopleImages/Getty Images

Allocating a senior employee a desk that they believe to be associated with a junior position amounts to a breach of workplace laws, an employment tribunal has ruled.

The panel said being made to sit somewhere in the office where junior staff work could “logically” lead a senior employee to conclude they have been demoted.