£112,000 award for race discrimination

A woman who was the victim of race discrimination has secured a payout of £112,000. The former council officer left her role at the county council suffering from stress and depression which she claimed was caused by the behaviour of her employers. She alleged that she was she was told not to eat lunch with other staff, was given extreme workloads and was refused holidays. A tribunal ruled that the she had been the victim of unfair treatment on the grounds of race.