Married restaurant workers who faced homophobic bullying were discriminated against, tribunal rules
A waiter and his husband who were “bullied for months on end” because of their sexual orientation by their colleagues and boss were discriminated against, a tribunal has ruled.
The South London Tribunal determined that the two gay employees, Mr Jeurninck and his partner, Mr Scatena, who was the manager and a shareholder at Piatto restaurant, were victims of direct discrimination and harassment.
The tribunal ruled there was “more than enough evidence” to suggest the director’s actions were motivated by homophobia and that “it would be perverse to find otherwise”. It found that Jeurninck and Scatena experienced inappropriate behaviour because of their sexual orientation, which had the “purpose of violating their dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them”.
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