A wheelchair tennis executive who was sacked after she refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine despite the government ending nearly all restrictions at the time has been awarded damages.
An employment tribunal in London has awarded Sarah Synan over £27,000 from the governing body for tennis the International Tennis Federation (ITF) after being unfairly dismissed over their vaccine policy.
The court on heard that ITF senior executives decided it needed to adopt a “hard line” stance on “non vaxxed people.”
Miss Synan was dismissed from her £37,500 a year role in February 2022 following the introduction of a new policy on COVID-19 vaccinations.
Synan worked for the ITF, supervising the organisation of the sport from the grassroots upwards. That included wheelchair tennis, Miss Synan’s area of work….