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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Tom Watling

Black warehouse worker wins £3k payout after colleague’s ‘slave’ graffito on machinery

Factory worker Seedy Fofana won £3,000 in compensation from Window Widgets in Gloucestershire (Stock picture, does not show Window Widgets) - (romaset - stock.adobe.com)

A Black warehouse employee has won a race harassment claim for £3,000 after a fellow worker wrote the word “slave” on a piece of machinery.

Seedy Fofana, a former employee at Window Widgets in Gloucester, which deals in plastic and metal parts for windows, was the only Black worker in the warehouse. He originally sought £500,000 in compensation after resigning a month after seeing the phrase written on a Hubtex machine.

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