Nigerian told by co-worker he 'looks like a chimpanzee' loses race discrimination case

The case failed as the company showed that it took steps to reverse the effects of the harassment and to prevent a recurrence.

Mr Oluebube told the WRC that he found the remarks "to be highly degrading and humiliating".

A Nigerian national who was allegedly racially abused at work when a colleague imitated the sounds of a monkey and told him he "looks like a chimpanzee” has lost his race discrimination case against his employer.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudication Officer Maire Mulcahy found that the statements allegedly made by the work colleague against Victor Kings Oluebube “are indicative of a reprehensible mindset and undoubtedly constitute harassment on the grounds of race” and that the comment "could not be other than degrading, hostile and humiliating"