A teacher who was sacked for missing a mandatory staff meeting to talk with family about her elderly mother's cancer, has been awarded almost £17,000 in compensation.
Dr Jacqueline Dumigan, who worked at The Mount School, in Edgerton, Huddersfield, for 24 years, was told she had to attend the meeting, scheduled for her day off, an employment tribunal heard.
But the teacher had to meet family members to discuss her 90-year-old mother who had recently been diagnosed with cancer.
