Costa Coffee to pay €20k to female worker, 19, who was sexually harassed by manager

In its findings, Labour Court chairman Tom Geraghty said the employee Shauna Quilty 'has a right to go to work without being subjected to unwanted pictures of her manager in his underwear or childish and offensive representations of male genitalia'

The Labour Court has ordered that Costa develop a workplace anti-harassment and sexual harassment policy and develop an appropriate social media policy. File picture

A Costa Coffee manager sexually harassed a 19-year-old female co-worker when circulating a video of a male barista drawing male genitalia on a flat white coffee.

In the post on a staff Facebook messenger group, the Costa Coffee manager told his colleagues "who does this, I’ll promote him to Barista Maestro straight away with no project".