Former Chief Executive of Hospital Denied Severance Pay
Ms Gibb, former Chief Executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in Kent had left her job in October 2007. Soon after her resignation, a controversial report on the outbreak of the bug clostridium difficile in the hospital was released, which blamed the outbreak on unhygienic hospital wards. Around hundred people had died as a result of that outbreak.
Ms Gibb was earning £150,000 annually and was entitled to a severance package, which included £175,000 as compensation and £75,000 as notice pay after her resignation, by consent of her employer. However, there was strong public opposition to the payment of compensation to her, resulting in intervention from the Department of Health, which blocked the payment although the notice pay was released.
As the complete severance pay was not disbursed to her, Ms. Gibb filed a case in the High Court for the same. Her plea has now been rejected by the High Court and she is now thinking of filing an appeal against the judgment.
Jon Restell, the Chief Executive of Managers in Partnership, the Union that Ms Gibb is a part of, said that they would pursue her case before an Employment Tribunal. On the advice of their leading counsel, they will also be filing an appeal in the Court of Appeal. They believe there are solid grounds for challenging the decision of the high court though they refused to divulge too many details.
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