How to challenge workplace discrimination and win | Donna Patterson | TEDxLondonWomen

[beckycallicott]

Amazing talk Donna! Well done 👍. Your determination is wonderful and you've set a pathway for other women to follow in your footsteps when they need to 💪 an inspiration!

[JimmyJaxJellyStax]

Practicing the silent blank stare back into their eyes - picturing a laser into their soul - is one powerful strategy. It touches a very fundamental instinct of survival with the eyes. It may have them back down or may have them lose their cool - management and witnesses there to see you did nothing in violation and "they" violated one or several policies of harassment during and after the discriminating remark(s).

Only then, continue to speak your part - "ok, well that was uncalled for, let's continue"

[labellt]

I fully agree that you should take a stand against injustice!

[RecoverywithMissWilliams]

Thank you Donna 😢I feel ready to fight my case with some key points you raised ❤

[AlisonMcDermott]

Great talk Donna - clear and compelling - it is so important to raise the issues and barriers that women face in the workplace. Congratulations on your determination and courage for calling this out. There is no 'Equality of Arms' in the Employment Tribunal service and you are one of the few people who have achieved success so even more credit to you. The government data shows that only 4% of people who bring a discrimination case in the ET succeed - which is an appalling statistic. Congratulations again.

[jmjohnson]

As a female electrician who has been the victim of discrimination and being singled out .... I am tired of just dealing with it. I'm fighting back

[gazberotten]

This goes on in the retail industry as well and often goes unchallenged

[elainealbert]

Thank you. I’m scared but I feel in my heart I want n need to do it

[debbieb]

My co worker(male) is getting paid substantially more than me. We have the same job title and do exactly the same job. HR said he is overpaid but they can’t take money away from him .I’ve been there 24 years he’s been there 20. We both transferred out of the same department, mine by choice and his was by the supervisors choice. I trained him on this current job. I’m so aggravated. I just want equal pay!!

[cosmosnomad]

It's tough. I agree that discrimination is widespread in organisations. I've experienced disability discrimination. However, in terms of tackling it, there is power in standing up to it but I think it needs to be widespread (large organisations with the power to advocate for workers, such as unions). As Donna says, only 1% of people file an employment tribunal and while that's still the case employers will continue their discriminatory practices because the repercussions are not severe enough. Even looking at Donna's case, great as it is, will not deter employers. She was awarded £60K, which to Morrisons is nothing (with over 100K employees and a turnover of over £17B per year). It's a slap on the wrist. If it doesn't hurt much, that's just the cost of doing business. So perhaps larger penalties.

[Chumpess_X]

This is inspiring. Maybe I will take on my employer for the broken promises given to me since my MS diagnosis after all.

[Harthikreddyy]

Imagine looking down on someone for something out of their control must be a petty thing to do just feel bad for the person hopefully they grow up

[ryanmacdonald]

My place gives u a warning if u grieve for longer than a week no matter if its your mom child etc my fight back brought me here

[pythonau]

4:07 that does not make sense. You get paid for the hours you work, its only the expected work hours that change. If you are part time they only have to give you 15 hours per week or whatever is in your agreement, anything else is a bonus. If your full time you have to be there for 38 hours per week or whatever is in the agreement. No one can force you to work 38 hours for only 15 hours pay thats illegal, you needed to see your union if that was the case.

Unless this is about you wanting to work less hours for the same pay. That would be discriminating against everyone else, why should the five people on your team without kids have to work 8 hours a day for $20 an hour ($160/day) while you get to work 4 hours a day for $40 an hour($160/day), just because you had a kid?

[chronikitty]

Its like when you just want a cookie recipe and have to read about a bunch of mundane stories. Extremely unengaging. Lasted 2:41.

[raj]

I don't understand how the discrimination happened with you. Did your employer treat you any different from other men and women? Were the expectations from you changed after your pregnancy and child??

[pythonau]

3:56 so you got maternity leave? Twice? So they let you take large blocks of time off with a guaranteed position when you decided to come back? How many of your coworkers could do this? If i told my boss i want a year off he’d laugh at me, then tell me to hand in my resignation on the way out.

[levanstein]

I so wish I didn't open this video. What about pay discrimination between men? In make only dominated careers.

[madlenheather]

Try to achieve anything in the UK being a White woman with an accent from the EU!

[pythonau]

You keep going on about discrimination and unfair treatment exactly what were the issues?