Tribunal watch: Black pub worker told St Patrick’s Day hat made him “look like a pimp”

A black pub worker has claimed that he was racially harassed after a manager told him that he “looked like a pimp” when he was wearing a promotional St Patrick’s Day hat on 17 March 2013. Stephen Simpson rounds up this and other employment tribunal rulings reported the previous week.

Racial harassment: manager accused of stereotyping black pub worker wearing St Patrick’s Day hat In Brown v Young & Co’s Brewery plc, the employment tribunal had the unusual task of considering whether or not a manager harassed a black pub worker when he told him that he “looked like a pimp” when he was wearing a promotional St Patrick’s Day hat.

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BECTU wins compensation for VFX workers Union BECTU has highlighted that it has won compensation for a group of union members made redundant by Cinesite VFX Ltd.

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