DRAX WHISTLEBLOWER
Burned out
THE high-profile employment tribunal at which tree-burning power company Drax was sued for unfair dismissal by whistleblower Rowaa Ahmar (
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) came to a dramatic end only seven days into the scheduled three weeks, when Drax decided it couldn’t take any more.
Ahmar (pictured), a lobbyist with the firm, claimed she’d been unfairly sacked after raising concerns with executives over Drax’s ropey sustainability claims.
Senior Drax executives had turned up in force every day at the tribunal, accompanied by security heavies. Evidence from their own witnesses exposed them as being at each others’ throats, as post hoc fabricators of documents, and as deleters of inconvenient correspondence with and about Ms Ahmar. A KC hired by the company to investigate the whistleblowing reported that Drax’s reasons for some of its actions “range from malevolence to questions of competence”.