A tyre fitter has been awarded over £22,000 in compensation after a colleague called him a “lazy old white guy”, The Mirror has reported.
An employment tribunal ruled that Barry Moore to be the victim of race and age discrimination by his colleague Desmond Owusu.
Mr Owusu was also alleged to have called Mr Moore a “gay white man” on more than one occasion.
Employment judge Eoin Fowell said these comments could “only have been a term of abuse”.
The tribunal heard that Mr Moore and Mr Owusu had worked together at Sean Pong Tyres in Rotherham.
The company, owned by Sean Frimpong, was said to have maintained that any comments were “just banter” – but the panel found the language used amounted to harassment.
Judge Fowell said: “Although it is possible that two men in a robust working environment might use abusive language to each other without any bad feeling, there is a risk that it tips over into aggression.
“We conclude that that is what happened here.”
Ronnie
You could not make this up usually the windrush offspring like to play the R card not the other way around fair play and a nice pay day kerching £££££££