Telling someone with a foreign accent you can’t understand them could be racial harassment, a senior tribunal judge has said.
Commenting on or criticising the way someone from another country or ethnic group speaks could breach employment law, Judge James Tayler said.
The senior circuit judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) made the ruling following a case about a university worker who sued when she received criticism over her “strong” Brazilian accent.
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