A whisky warehouse staffer has won over £14,000 from a Scots whisky giant after he was made to feel like a "nuisance" by bosses who refused to accommodate his mental health issues at work.
Danny Duployen, 39, from Bo'ness, says his bosses at Whyte and Mackay bosses refused to work around his struggles with depression and anxiety. The dad of one, who worked as a forklift driver, was diagnosed in 2020 and put on medication that often left him feeling fatigued and needing to nap two or three times a day.
Bosses at the whisky firm's Grangemouth bottling plant were initially supportive of reducing his hours after the move was recommended by a company-appointed doctor in early 2021. But when Danny asked for the "helpful" change to be made permanent the firm ordered him to return to full-time hours, citing recruitment issues exacerbated by Brexit and the pandemic.
