A UK court has ruled that Calling a man “bald” constitutes an act of sexual harassment. A resolution that comes after an electrician from Yorkshire County, Tony Finn, sued the company that had fired him on the grounds that his supervisor had made derogatory comments about his baldness.
As The Guardian explains, the court said there is “little doubt that being spoken to in this pejorative manner was unwelcome conduct.” “This is strong language. Although, as we discovered, industrial language was commonplace in this West Yorkshire factory, in our view Mr King crossed the line by making personal comments to the claimant about his appearance,” the court added.
The court assured that the lawyer “was right in stating that both women and men could soon be.” “However, as the three members of the court will guarantee, baldness is much more frequent in men than in women. We found that it is inherently related to sex.”
The court ruled that “Mr. King’s conduct was unwelcome, It was a violation of the plaintiff’s dignity.” and furthermore, “it created an intimidating environment for him, it was done for that purpose and related to the sex of the claimant.”
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