Driver processes company after episode of flatulence. Court rejects

Uthe british bus driver sued the company for which he worked after being removed from work following an episode of flatulence.

The protagonist of the story is Stephanie Bryan. The woman had a gas crisis during her shift and was eventually denounced by Mrs Samantha, who turned her in the next shift.

According to the latter, the smell Stephanie had left in the bus seat was so intense that when she came home her husband asked her what was going on and forced her to do the laundry.

Samantha will have reported the case to her boss, stating that someone should talk to her colleague, and alert her to the situation, which was disturbing to the other colleagues. 

Stephanie, who was working on the experience for The Big Lemon between September 2024 and January 2025, was eventually removed, claiming that she suffered from health problems such as depression, borderline personality disorder and urinary incontinence, which she had never reported to her employer. The company decided not to renew the contract with the woman alleging that it was not in question its health problems, but the way in which they could influence its conduct.

The woman eventually filed a complaint against the company to contest dismissal, stating that it was a case of discrimination and harassment for disability. However, the court did not give him reason.

The Bristol Labour Court considered that the woman was correctly addressed when the problem of fecal incontinence was presented to her, and that she herself had reacted badly to her approach. It was also considered that the reason why the company did not renew the contract was because it did not successfully pass safe driving tests and not because of the health problem.

“ In fact, the resignation occurred because the management concluded, in a genuine and reasonable way, that [she] had not satisfactorily completed its probationary period”, he indicated.