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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Steven Morris

Black warehouse worker wins £3,000 payout over colleague’s ‘slave’ graffito

A warehouse worker – not an employee of Window Widgets – using machinery to move a pallet of boxes.
A warehouse worker – not an employee of Window Widgets – using machinery to move a pallet of boxes. Photograph: Dmitriy Shironosov/Alamy

A Black warehouse worker has won a race harassment claim after a disgruntled colleague wrote the word “slave” on a piece of machinery.

The colleague had meant it not as a racial slur but as an expression of his anger at, as he saw it, being overworked and underpaid, an employment tribunal heard.

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