Lloyds Banking Group should have issued a warning to Carl Borg-Neal, 58, instead of dismissing him for using the infamous racial slur, judges ruled.
Lloyds Bank, a retail lender based in the United Kingdom, has been ordered to pay compensation to a manager who was fired for saying the N-word.The judges sitting on the London Central Employment Tribunal ruled that Borg-Neal uttered the slur as part of a question about “the use of the N-word by black people in rap lyrics or to each other when playing basketball.”
The judges accepted Borg-Neal’s contention that his dyslexia can lead him to blurt out thoughts without being mindful of others’ reactions.Carl Borg-Neal, 58, was fired by Lloyds in July 2021 after he uttered the N-word during a race education training session put on by the company.Borg-Neal’s dyslexia also entitles him to protections under UK laws governing the rights of disabled employees, the judges ruled.
Borg-Neal — a former mayor of the town Andover, about 200 miles west of London — is expected to receive a significant sum in damages from the bank. Judges are expected to rule on the size of the payout in October.Test Valley Borough Council His attorney, Emma Hamnett, said that the firing had a “devastating effect” on her client’s mental health.
“He explained over and again to Lloyds that his use of the N-word in full was not intentional, not intended to cause upset and he offered many apologies,” Hamnett said.“We have a zero-tolerance policy on any racial discrimination or use of racist language,” the bank told The Post in a statement.
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