Teachers at celebrated academy, led by �250,000 superhead, receiving only statutory sick pay of less than �100 a week

A very successful academy, with a super-head paid more than �250,000 a year, is among a “small minority” within the sector in only paying its teachers statutory sick pay of less than �100 a week, a union source has indicated, but the practice may spread.

Brampton Manor Academy, in Newham, East London, was revealed, in an employment tribunal judgment, to have put a newly qualified teacher with multiple sclerosis, Yasmin Omar, on statutory sick pay provision, receiving nothing for the first three days of absence from work and then £96.35 per week after that.

The move left Omar, who was just embarking on her teaching career as she was diagnosed with MS, homeless while still employed by the school.  

The finding came in a judgment which ruled that the school had subjected Omar, a science teacher who had joined Brampton Manor in September 2018, to 10 different instances of discrimination arising from her disability, as well as subjecting her to “harassment” and leaving her feeling “frightened” and “intimidated”.

One passage of the judgment report revealed how Omar had been rendered homeless while signed off sick from the school. Having struggled with relapses in her MS since starting at the school, the young teacher was signed off from work from February 27^th, 2019, before resigning the following September.