In the UK, baldness is a frequently mentioned word.
From William to Harry,
and then to Boris,
Xiaobei ,
All British male celebrities seem to be unable to escape the fate of baldness...
Discussed baldness, netizens They were merciless...
"Boris's hair is bald like a separate Red Sea."
Just when everyone felt that baldness was a normal word,
Recently, the British Labor Arbitration Court made a ruling:
Calling a man bald is sexual harassment!
This is the real thing...
thing happened in July 2019.
plaintiff is Uncle Finn from West Yorkshire .
Uncle has worked in the British company British Bung Company for nearly 24 years.
This is a family-owned business that makes traditional wooden barrel plugs for the brewing industry. The uncle works as an electrician there.
In 2019, the uncle and the team leader who was 30 years younger than him in the factory had a conflict over a trivial matter.
In the conflict, the team leader King called him a "bald c**t"!
The two almost started fighting at that time!
I wasn't very angry when the other party called the stupid uncle,
but he couldn't stand being scolded for being bald! !
This is simply an appearance attack!
Sex discrimination!
So, after returning home, he and his son wrote a statement about this matter,
and handed the letter to the boss...
Because the uncle's son is a local policeman, the letter he wrote that day was written on the official letter paper of the police station.
The boss felt that the uncle was threatening himself...
Two days later, he fired him...
Uncle couldn't swallow this, and in anger he sued all the company and the team leader who scolded him!
Recently, a British labor arbitration court held a detailed trial of the matter.
finally determined that the team leader scolded the uncle for being bald, which was indeed a kind of sexual harassment.
Judge believes that commenting on a man's bald head in the workplace is like commenting on the size of a woman's breasts in the workplace.
The lawyer of the defendant company refuted: Not only men will be bald, but women will also be bald. Why is this a kind of gender discrimination and sexual harassment?
But the judge said that baldness is obviously more common among men...
Three judges can show up...
What a coincidence, all three judges are bald...
The following is the judge who led the trial Judge Jonathan Brain...
The judge said: "According to our judgment, there is a connection between the word 'bald' and the protected gender characteristics."
"We found that it has an inherent connection with gender."
To make it clear, the judge cited a previous labor arbitration jurisprudence, and a male manager was considered sexual harassment because he commented on the size of a woman's breast.
"This kind of comments about breasts are basically pointing to women.
And this kind of comments about baldness are basically pointing to men."
"King's purpose of saying this is to hurt the plaintiff through appearance, and this appearance often appears in men.
Therefore, the court believes that King's behavior of calling the plaintiff "bald donkey" is unpopular. It violates the plaintiff's dignity and creates a hostile, humiliating, offensive, uneasy working environment for him, and this is related to the gender of the plaintiff."
In law, sexual or gender-related behaviors are committed to others against the will of others. If it causes disgust and disgust of the other party and improperly affects his normal life, it is considered "sexual harassment."
So swearing about baldness is also a kind of discrimination based on gender and a kind of sexual harassment.
In the end, the uncle won a great victory, and the court finally found that he was unfairly fired, wrongly fired, injured and sexually harassed.
Originally, the uncle also accused King of age discrimination against him because he remembered that when King scolded him, he added the word "old" in front of "bald stupid donkey".
However, the court finally found that King just scolded the "bald stupid donkey"...
won the lawsuit, and the uncle could get a compensation.
As for the specific amount of compensation, we have to wait for the court's decision in the future...
After watching this case, the British comment area was lively...
"Bald brothers all over the world unite."
"As a 'bald stupid donkey', I understand you very much, brother!"
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