Electrician was sexually harassed, tribunal rules

AN ELECTRICIAN was sexually harassed when a supervisor called him a “bald c***” an employment tribunal has ruled.

Tony Finn was working for the British Bung Company, in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, when he clashed with factory supervisor Jamie King three years ago, a tribunal heard earlier this month.

A judgment published this week said that Mr King used the phrase “bald c***” and this “was unwanted, it was a violation of the claimant’s dignity, it created an intimidating... environment for him, it was done for that purpose, and it related to the claimant’s sex.”

The finding of sexual harassment was part of a longer judgment which also found that Mr Finn was unfairly and wrongly dismissed in 2021 despite having “an unblemished disciplinary record over not far off 24 years of service”.

An additional claim that Mr Finn was subjected to age discrimination was dismissed after the tribunal decided that that Mr King had not called him an “old bald c***”, just “bald c***”.