KBR Manager Fired While Battling Cancer Is Awarded $3.5 Million

KBR Inc. must pay a former executive at its U.K. unit 2.5 million pounds ($3.5 million) for forcing him out while he battled cancer, in one of the country’s biggest disability discrimination awards.

David Barrow, 64, won his claims for unfair dismissal, harassment and unfavorable treatment as a result of disability last year against the engineering and infrastructure company, for which he worked for almost four decades. A London employment tribunal made the award Wednesday.

Barrow, who was head of program management for the Government Services division in the firm’s EMEA region, started to feel undervalued amid organizational changes and ...