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Diversity officer guilty of racism after telling colleague ‘you must have been oppressed’

Assumption that colleague ‘suffered oppression’ because of their skin colour was ‘a form of stereotyping’, employment tribunal finds

A diversity officer racially discriminated against a mixed race colleague at broadcaster Sky by telling her she must have been “oppressed” because of her Latina heritage, an employment tribunal has ruled.

Jane Bradbury was left “distressed” after Rosemary Cook made the remark as she prepared to deliver a presentation about racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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