An imam who blew the whistle on his mosque has won a case for unfair dismissal.
Yahya Barry was sacked after he raised concerns over financial irregularities and reported Edinburgh Central Mosque to the charity regulator, OSCR.
Mr Barry, 35, had been worried by thousands of pounds of payments being made from petty cash, rather than by cheque.
An unemployment tribunal has now ruled that his concerns amounted to “protected disclosures” - the legal definition of whistleblowing - and that his dismissal was therefore unfair.
Judge Murdo Macleod, who heard Mr Barry’s case in November, said the mosque had not been ready to accept criticism from the imam.
In a formal ruling, Mr Macleod said: “They reacted in an an extraordinarily defensive way, in our judgment, instead of looking at the facts.”
The judge added: "This defensiveness was, in our judgment, redolent of an employer that was not prepared to accept criticism and [Mr Barry's] persistence in raising matters both with the management and with OSCR led directly to the process which led to his dismissal." [The Herald] Read more
