(783)  BALDNESS NOT A DISABILITY

An employment tribunal in Glasgow held on 16 April 2008 that baldness was not a disability in a case brought by former art teacher James Campbell (61) against Falkirk Council also claiming constructive and unfair dismissal from a post at Denny High School.  Mr Campbell, who retired in 2007, claimed that he suffered harassment and taunting from pupils on account of his baldness, and that he was not protected from this by his employers, contrary to the Disability Discrimination Act 1996.  Dismissing the argument, tribunal chair Robert Gall remarked that If baldness was to be regarded as an impairment