Brewdog tribunal rap

TRENDY craft beer producer Brewdog has to pay £12,000 compensation to a former employee who was sacked after telling the company he was about to be declared legally blind.

James Ross, 47, who worked in the Aberdeen brewer’s packaging department, suffers with Stargardt disease, which causes progressive vision loss. After he refused to move to a different department last year, claiming the new role would be more difficult with his condition, Brewdog fired him.

Employment judge Nick Hosie described Brewdog’s actions as ‘astonishing’.