London banker Anca Lacatus was awarded the compensation payout after an employment tribunal ruled it is 'plainly sexist' to use the term to describe women.
A female investment banker who sued Barclays for sex discrimination after her boss kept calling women 'birds' has won £50,000.
Ms Lacatus sought damages of over £1.3million against Barclays after she won claims of sex discrimination and a form of disability discrimination. And Mr Kinghorn told her she should not report him to HR for referring to women in such an offensive way, she said. 'We accept that when this was pointed out to , he ultimately got the message and stopped trying to be funny.'We find that it is likely that it took some time before Ms Lacatus was sufficiently blunt that the message hit home.
'It was very much at the lower end of what might reasonably be regarded as a detriment. Taking into account the context we would anticipate the use of the phrase ''birds'' to cause some annoyance and irritation.
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