12/05/2022
Mr Tony Finn has won his Employment Tribunal Claim against The British B**g Manufacturing Company Limited partly on the grounds of s*x discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 for being abused as a “bald c**t” in the workplace.
The Tribunal reasoned that baldness is a condition that predominately affects men and therefore any derogatory comment directed at a man for being follically-challenged amounts potentially to discrimination on the grounds of s*x just as if the claimant had been a woman and had abusive remarks directed at her breasts.
While I do not criticise the Tribunal’s decision and am pleased that the law is being applied equally between men and women, as a bald man who has sported either a buzzcut or a wet shaved skull since the tender age of 23, I am very proud of my shiny pallet and consider it one of my defining features. I have even had derogatory remarks directed at my lack of hair in the context of female genitalia in a similar fashion to Mr Finn.
If I was in Mr Finn’s shoes making an employment claim against my employers, legally I would follow my solicitors’ advice and plead every conceivable claim to maximise my prospects of success and damages pay out, but privately I would not have been too fussed at being likened to shaven female genitalia and would consider it a badge of honour.
Guys, whether you still sport a Jim Morrison lion’s mane or look like Patrick Stewart on top, what do we think of this key legal development…?
