A  recent case has indicated,once again,that failure to ensure employees are not subjected to discriminatory behaviour can prove extremely costly .

In a recent case brought in the Birmingham Employment Tribunal a female Muslim lawyer agreed to settle her claim for discrimination upon payment of £75,000 after enduring racist comments and harassment over a five year period at the hands of a senior work colleague.

This is a salutory lesson for employers to make sure that all staff conduct themselves in an approriate manner in the workplace.Ultimately it is the employer who is liable for the actions of their workers.

So far as employees are concerned the case shows once again that  significant awards can be obtained in  appropriate circumstances.

In either case it pays to take advice promptly upon this complex and developing area of the law.

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