Posted on 05/13/2022 9:21:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Hair loss is far more common among men than women, so using the term is “inherently related to sex” — and equivalent to commenting on the size of a woman’s breasts, the employment tribunal said, according to the UK Telegraph.
The finding — made by three judges who lament their own lack of locks in the judgment — came in the case of an electrician, Tony Finn, who sued a small Yorkshire-based family business over the term.
Things first got hairy when one of Finn’s supervisors, Jamie King, allegedly called him a “fat bald c—” and he was later fired from the West Yorkshire-based British Bung, which makes wooden cask plugs, according to the outlet.
The accusation resulted in the panel, headed by Judge Jonathan Brain, deliberating on if King’s baldness bash was simply insulting — or rose to the level of harassment.
The ruling noted that the company’s lawyer “was right to submit that women as well as men may be bald” but contended that “baldness is much more prevalent in men than women.”
The finding also declared that criticizing Finn for his hairless head was “degrading” and “humiliating.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Doesn’t seem that the employer had an opportunity to properly defend itself. Is the plaintiff in fact a fat, bald, c-word? Was there an opportunity to present that case?
He may well be a F-B-C. Or not.
I would have paid good money to see such a trial. “Your Honor, I will begin my cross examination of the witness. Sir, when you walk outside in the sun, are people blinded by the reflection off of your head? From the neck up- are you ever mistaken for Kojak? Mr. Clean? An oversized cue ball? Further, when you walk down the street are your required by DOT standards to wear a sign on the back of your pants stating “Caution Wide Load”? Are you now, or have you recently attended a class from Jenny Craig, Weight Weight Watchers or Fat Bastards Anonymous?”
Andrew Dice Clay?
That's just a bald assertion, so no problem
I used to chide an uncle about his being bald, and he'd respond "grass don't grow on a busy street!"
To which I'd always respond: "it don't grow in the desert neither!"
We'd always laugh together about that.
That was when I had a full head of hair (sigh ...)
So glad he's in heaven now and not here on earth to give me as much crap as I gave him! :-)
Billiard ball. Not good.
Underhaired. Fine.
Cannot help but think this is much more personally directed than the article is depicting.
As the panel also said they fired him incorrectly/without cause/to that effect after 24 years........
Yes, this is deeper than the article is letting on......
Article reads a lot like the Bee...
The SNL skit with Phil Hartman as Frank Sinatra, addressing Jan Hooks as Sinéad O'Connor.
How about “Your head looks like a billiard ball.” would that be okay?.................
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“Ohh. The glare from your head! Hold on a sec while I fetch my sunglasses.”
Folks in the UK have very thin skin. I see it all the time at work, they cry about everything.
It sounds like if the supervisor hadn’t used the “c-—” word when he called the long time employee a “fat bald c-—” it would have been OK.
What I’m amazed at is a British Company called “British Bung.”
Baldness affirms testosterone. Deal.
“What if you call a man bald who has a full head of hair?”
You’ve seen too much in the locker room...
But...but... “Underhaired” is using a normative concept of appropriate haired. There are no “norms”...ONLY individual concepts of reality...aka stupidity or psychosis by permissive opportunity..
now I remember, ROFL!!! One of the funniest bits ever
Buddy Sorrel and Mel Cooley could not be reached for comment.
"Mel's hair didn't fall out, it fell in, and clogged up his brain!"
Hey -- it's nobody's business if I did or not.Robert Lockwood & Johnny Shines - We're Gonna Ball Tonight | February 5, 2011 | SunshineHappiness7
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