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The Football Association has fined Arsenal Women £50,000 after ruling they had carried out “an act of discrimination” by “reason of disability” in their dismissal of a former coach. Club staff will also be required to undertake an education programme.
The under-15s coach Robin Carpenter, who began working for Arsenal in 2007, had taken the club and the then technical director of the club’s centre of excellence, John Bayer (who was announced to have left his post of interim manager of the Championship side London City Lionesses on Wednesday morning) and then development manager Clare Wheatley, who both denied liability, to an employment tribunal alleging that he had been dismissed in May 2014 shortly after disclosing that he had autism. The club settled the case for £17,200 in 2015.
An FA statement said: “The club denied an allegation that, in dismissing an employee, it carried out an act of discrimination by reason of disability that was not otherwise permitted both by law and the Rules and Regulations of the FA. However, it was subsequently found proven by an independent Regulatory Commission.”
That commission, which decided it would not be appropriate to delay ruling on the case until it could be done so in person, found “the case against the club was strong”.
It also denied a suggestion that vulnerability of women’s football to the “economic downturn which must inevitably follow the outbreak of Covid-19” should warrant a “reduction in the level of the fine we impose in this case”.
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