The assistant manager said the claimant was “shouting loudly” when he came over and that he told the claimant: “Calm down, boy” after a shop assistant told him she had been called a racist
The Workplace Relations Commission. Photo: Stock image
A supermarket whose staff insisted a Roma man was denied service for shouting and calling them “racists” has been ordered to pay him €6,000 for racial discrimination and harassment.
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) concluded the man was refused service “based on a stereotype” and that the staff at the shop knew the man was Roma and were “under instruction” to deny him service if he came in.
