A Nigerian man in Ireland who was continuously tormented by his boss at work has been awarded 30,000 Euros (N19 million) compensation for racial discrimination.
The Irish Times reports that the man identified as Kings Oluebube was employed by Dublin-based recruitment firm, CPL Solutions Ltd, trading as Flexsource Recruitment as a warehouse operative.
Oluebube said that in February 2019, his team leader called him a chimpanzee while also making monkey noises in front of the other workers but he did not report the abuse.
On the 21st of May, 2019, the same boss repeated his actions and that was when he decided to report the racist abuse to his store manager who in turn reported the incident to CPL Solutions.
An investigation was carried out on the incident by the organisation and a query issued the team lead.
Olubube, however, requested that the report of the investigation be put in writing but he was told that the management did not in any way support the action of the team and that they were sorry.
According to the company representative, “I would also like to add, at the start when this was brought to the attention of Flexsource, you said you would like (the team leader) to receive a warning and you wanted it to stay informal. You then changed your mind as the investigation was midway to say you sought the advice of a solicitor.
“Flexsource went ahead with the formal investigation meeting an we followed all process.”
Alan Hugh, Deputy Chairman of Labour Court ordered the company to pay the Nigerian National a 30,000 euros (19 million) for racial discrimination after he found out that the firm is vicariously liable for the harassment in question.
The deputy chairman said that after the case was brought to CPL Solutions they refused to provide means of reversing the racial harassment experienced by Oluebube.
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