Giving senior staff a desk linked with junior role is breach of UK workplace laws, tribunal rules

Estate agent manager, who had quit after being denied a symbolically significant' seat, was right to view it as demotion, panel says

Allocating a senior employee a desk that they believe to be associated with a junior position amounts to a breach of workplace laws, an employment tribunal has ruled.

The panel said being made to sit somewhere in the office where junior staff work could logically" lead a senior employee to conclude they have been demoted.