article_snippet.sent: In the judgement of the panel, which found both her line manager Alex Nkoroi and Brittania Hotels guilty of sex discrimination by way of harassment but cleared harassment of indirect sex discrimination, the tribunal stated: 'The claimant was a casual member of staff. '
article_snippet.sent: The claimant had a zero hours contract and it was certainly The claimant belief whether right or wrong that the second respondent (Nkoroi) would be able to influence the number of hours that The claimant would be given to work. '
article_snippet.sent: When James Whittaker had every reason to believe that a manager had engaged in repeated sexualised behaviour in the workplace, during working hours, with a subordinate member of staff, James Whittaker did not think that any form of disciplinary sanction was appropriate.'
article_snippet.sent: After the tribunal application was lodged, the hotel reinvestigated but found only one count, the neck kissing to be proved and that Miss Southern had encouraged the tribunal application was lodged.
article_snippet.sent: When Miss Southern appealed against the decision of the second investigation, a third investigation was undertaken, but a bullying and harassment training course rejected the appeal.
article_snippet.sent: The panel added: 'The panel have no hesitation in concluding that the events complained of by Miss Southern occurred.'
article_snippet.sent: An employment tribunal at the City Exchange in Leeds, pictured emerged at the hearing that Miss Southern suffers long-term mental health problems, but had made her employer and Nkoroi aware of it.
article_snippet.sent: The panel added: 'There can be no doubt that the claimant perceived such conduct to be humiliating, to have been degrading and to have violated her dignity. '
article_snippet.sent: The other circumstances of the case of relevance are her age, her mental health history and the fragility that the illness was likely to cause and the fact that the perpetrator was a manager in a position, as her believed, to determine what work would be offered to her. '
article_snippet.sent: this claimiant cannot be underestimated how the claimant must have felt when the claimant was and indeed has continued to be persistently disbelieved.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Said she didn't complain as she worried