Polish men awarded €22k over litany of racial abuse

FOUR Polish men who were routinely racially abused and harassed while working for a recruitment agency have been awarded more than €22,000.

Pawel Siekierski, Rafal Labedzki, Lukasz Jedlinski and Mariusz Kowalski took a case to the Equality Tribunal claiming they were discriminated against in respect of harassment on the grounds of race while they worked for Sales Placement Ltd as general operatives in an industrial site operated by a third party (named as Z Ltd).

The men claimed the harassment was carried out by two of their co-workers, Ms A and Mr B, who supervised them and who were employed by Z Ltd.