Calling a man "bald" is now classed as sexual harassment, a judge in a U.K. employment tribunal has ruled.
Highlights
- U.K.
- employment tribunal ruled that the use of the word “bald” as an insult related to a “protected characteristic of sex” The tribunal compared calling a man bald to commenting on the size of woman’s breasts.
- The ruling was made on a case where the insult was alleged to have been used against Tony Finn, an electrician for the British Bung Manufacturing Company.
- The tribunal determined that using this insult was a “violation against the claimant’s [Finn] dignity, it created an intimidating… environment for him, it was done for that purpose, and it related to his sex,” the tribunal said in a ruling published Wednesday.