Colleagues gave Nazi salutes as Roma worker passed, tribunal hears

Two foreign nationals who were discriminated against after making formal complaints about their treatment in their separate workplaces have been awarded large sums in compensation by the Equality Tribunal.

A Cork-based agricultural suppliers firm was ordered to pay €20,000 to a Hungarian member of its staff over its failure to address both verbal and written complaints of a campaign of harassment by two Polish co-workers during 2010 and 2011.

McDonnell Brothers, based in Fermoy, Co Cork, was found to have been discriminated against Attila Maerton Ajtai, who is a Roma, on race grounds.