White employee harassed by jokes insulting black people

A white woman who claims she was racially harassed by "jokes" insulting black people has won the right to take her case to an Employment Tribunal.

Pat Gravell claims that, despite being white and British, she was harassed by jokes and comments made by colleagues because she found them distressing and offensive.

She says that colleagues sent her texts referring to black people as monkeys, and made offensive references to the mixed-race marriage of comedians Dawn French and Lenn... (298 more words)

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