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12/08/2008
Englishman Wins Harassment Case
An English pipe fitter has been awarded €20,000 (£15,630) in compensation after suffering racial abuse at his Irish workplace.
The man, identified as 'Mr C', worked for an engineering company on a Dublin building site, where he claimed, other workers would sing anti-British Irish rebel songs and ignore him.
On some occasions, whenever staff had to enter dangerous spaces, they would say "send the Brits in".
Negative reports about England, such as a story about a nuclear plant in Sellafield, or the performance of the English football team during the World Cup in Germany were also read out in his presence.
The man, who requested anonymity, told an Equality Tribunal that shortly after joining the firm in April 2006, the abuse reached a point where he would take his lunch in his car instead of the canteen.
The man claimed that two months after starting work he was made redundant because he was British - instead of a less experienced Irish worker.
It is understood that another worker said "the Brit should be sacked" when the issue arose.
Mr C said his supervisor was "intimidating" and "joined in with the abuse".
The company has denied allegations of harassment and said the man had never complained to his site manager about abuse.
The company insisted that the man was laid off because he had "less service" than other workers on the site.
The Tribunal found the man was racially harassed and said that some of the instances suffered by the English worker were "of a blatant and intimidatory nature".
However, it was ruled that the man was not chosen for redundancy because of his nationality.
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The man, identified as 'Mr C', worked for an engineering company on a Dublin building site, where he claimed, other workers would sing anti-British Irish rebel songs and ignore him.
On some occasions, whenever staff had to enter dangerous spaces, they would say "send the Brits in".
Negative reports about England, such as a story about a nuclear plant in Sellafield, or the performance of the English football team during the World Cup in Germany were also read out in his presence.
The man, who requested anonymity, told an Equality Tribunal that shortly after joining the firm in April 2006, the abuse reached a point where he would take his lunch in his car instead of the canteen.
The man claimed that two months after starting work he was made redundant because he was British - instead of a less experienced Irish worker.
It is understood that another worker said "the Brit should be sacked" when the issue arose.
Mr C said his supervisor was "intimidating" and "joined in with the abuse".
The company has denied allegations of harassment and said the man had never complained to his site manager about abuse.
The company insisted that the man was laid off because he had "less service" than other workers on the site.
The Tribunal found the man was racially harassed and said that some of the instances suffered by the English worker were "of a blatant and intimidatory nature".
However, it was ruled that the man was not chosen for redundancy because of his nationality.
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