Overview

• The Birmingham employment tribunal upheld Shannon Burns’s disability discrimination claim against Gitpod and rejected her separate sex discrimination claim.
• Judges concluded the night she slept in a sauna followed a team off-site in Lofer, Austria, and was partly due to alcohol and ADHD-related forgetfulness after she lost her room key.
• The ruling said Gitpod should have done more to investigate Burns’s condition and consider reasonable support after she requested help for ADHD.
• After the off-site, Burns was told to show executive control and was given a deadline to improve before being dismissed about two months later.
• Burns, hired as vice-president of engineering on a £220,000 salary with a bonus, will have compensation decided at a separate remedy hearing.