Bank worker wins £490,000 payout after being sacked for using N-word in training session
6 January 2024, 20:45 | Updated: 6 January 2024, 20:47
A bank manager who was unfairly sacked for using the N-word while asking a question at an anti-racism seminar has won a £490,000 payout.
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Dad-of-two Carl Borg-Neal raised the question during a session being put on by a trainer for Lloyds Bank - saying the word in full as he did so.
The utterance reportedly distressed the woman running the exercise to the extent that she needed a week off to recover.
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Mr Borg-Neal was sacked for gross miconduct after the incident - but the former councillor and mayor has now won a payout for disability discrimination.
The total Lloyds payout will reach over £1million after legal fees and court costs are taken into account.
The former Lloyds worker told The Telegraph: “I often wonder if I wasn’t a white middle-aged male would I have had to go through everything I went through.
“There is no way of telling. You are bottom of everything.
In the initial ruling, Lloyds said that it had a zero-tolerance policy on racist language and that they were considering appealing the decision.
After the failure of their latest appeal, a spokesperson said: “We recieved the judgement in August and accept its findings.”
The London Central Employment Tribunal panel saod that Mr Borg-Neal had been referring to the use of the word by black people in rap songs or when playing basketball.
They added that the question was valid and without malice.
