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Mixing Up Names of Non-White Colleagues is Racist, Tribunal Rules

by Will Jones
1 March 2025 11:00 AM

Mixing up the names of non-white colleagues counts as race discrimination as it makes them feel “lumped together as a group”, an employment tribunal has ruled. The Telegraph has more.

Employment Judge Garry Smart said those from minority backgrounds were often “confused” with others from the same heritage, which can make them feel “hurt” and “offended”.

He said the “adverse inference” of confusing the names of non-white employees was because of race and could therefore be seen as discriminatory.

His ruling came in the case of Abhinav Sharma, who accused Magdelena Badescu, a white colleague, of racism when she referred to him by the name of another Indian employee.

The Jaguar Land Rover engineer said he looked and sounded “very different” to co-worker Bhuvnesh Bhardwaj – who was of a larger build, wore glasses, had a beard and spoke with a British accent.

The tribunal commented that, in comparison, Mr Sharma was slimmer, spoke with an “obvious Indian accent” and was clean-shaven or had “nothing more than stubble”.

The engineer sued for race discrimination over the “mix-up”.

The tribunal panel found there “could be no mistaken identity based on looks or voices” and concluded the mistake happened “because of his race”.

Mr Sharma is now in line for compensation after the judge upheld his claims and ruled that this “would not have happened with non-Indian colleagues”.

The tribunal, held in Birmingham, heard that Mr Sharma started working for Jaguar Land Rover as an engineer in 2017.

Mr Sharma worked alongside Ms Badescu in the engines team and the pair were said to get on “well”.

The incident occurred during a team meeting in May 2022, when Ms Badescu was said to have referred to Mr Sharma as “Bhuv” – the shortened version of Mr Bhardwaj’s first name. …

In September 2022, Mr Sharma handed in his notice.

He then submitted a document in which he complained about several racial and age-related incidents of discrimination at the company before taking it to an employment tribunal.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Anti-RacismEmployment TribunalJudicial activismJudiciaryMicro-aggressionsRacism

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Ozone
Ozone
5 months ago

I’ve worked with people from all over the world in my career and have only once misnamed someone to their face by accident, funnily enough to an Indian chap at JLR.
He acted offended for a few seconds then gave me a smile, he was just winding me up. That is how a mature adult should act.

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
5 months ago
Reply to  Ozone

This is an utterly insane ruling, which wouldn’t look out of place in molly’s developing dystopia.

Wtf happened go the supposed British values of tolerance and decency?

Nowadays we exist only to pay, pay and pay again with our money our culture and our country for these next Tuesdays.

The tipping point must be close.

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AynRandyAndy
AynRandyAndy
5 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

“In this country in 15 or 20 years’ time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man”

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DiscoveredJoys
DiscoveredJoys
5 months ago

I’ll bet that asking people for their name in writing so that you avoid such mistakes would be found to be racist too.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
5 months ago

How much of a pathetic snowflake ( can I even say ‘snowflake’ when referring to non-white people these days, or would they have a meltdown? ) do you have to be to escalate to the max something as banal as this? This drivel is beneath contempt. I think this prat would be in good company with somebody else who knows all about perma-victimhood, demonstrated through the medium of race-baiting and promoting division at every available opportunity, such is their level of entitlement and self-obsession. I just think such people must make incredibly dull company, all things considered;

”NEW: I’m so proud and excited to officially launch the Parliamentary Black Caucus.

A cross-party gathering of Black and minoritised Members of Parliament & Peers dedicated to advancing racial equality, equity, justice & representation for all.
We aim to:

Promote inclusive and effective representation.

Champion policies that address racial inequality & social justice.

Provide a united platform for Parliamentarians across political lines.

Honour the legacy of the trailblazers who fought for equality.”

https://x.com/DawnButlerBrent/status/1895444991478313353

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
5 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Dawn Butler – FFS. Abacus’s student. Never leaves home without her Race Card.

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Tintin
Tintin
5 months ago

What about using their pronoun instead of name? The world is f c k d e

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Tintin
Tintin
5 months ago

This reminds me of that ‘black’ woman confronting a lady-in-awaiting ….. Pathetic.

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Jeff Chambers
Jeff Chambers
5 months ago

How are we going to put an end to anti-whitism?

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godknowsimgood
godknowsimgood
5 months ago

This is bad news for Joanna Lumley, Stephen Fry and Brad Pitt, and many other people with this similar difficulty to a greater or less extent:

‘Dame Joanna Lumley candidly revealed she suffers from the same neurological disorder as Stephen Fry and Brad Pitt, saying her prosopagnosia is “why I kiss everybody”.
…the actress has now revealed that she suffers from face blindness, or prosopagnosia, which makes her unable to recognise faces.’

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1786777/joanna-lumley-health-update-neurological-disorder-prosopagnosia

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Mogwai
Mogwai
5 months ago
Reply to  godknowsimgood

I did a boob so I deleted it.

Last edited 5 months ago by Mogwai
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Alan M
Alan M
5 months ago

Interesting that the offender has a surname implying eastern European heritage to begin with. Possibly less used to working with Indian colleagues.

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klf
klf
5 months ago

I once worked with someone, and for weeks I called him John. I later found out that his name was Dave. For some reason he never corrected me. Today he’d be able to sue me!

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Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

Yet again we see that is the JUDGES who are causing all the problems.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
5 months ago

For my entire three years at university, the director of studies in my subject called me “Ray” (right initial, wrong name). Being a well brought up young man, I never had the heart to put him right.

He’d also kept asking me if I was related to a well-known author with the same surname. I’d decline, but in a month’s time he’d ask me again.

Nowadays I could sue for the trauma of being misnamed. And being of more advanced years, I myself now struggle to remember names.

Anno domini.

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Heretic
Heretic
5 months ago

See how white people are already being replaced. This is horrifying:

Call centres using AI to ‘whiten’ Indian accents

“The world’s biggest call centre company is using artificial intelligence to “neutralise” Indian accents for Western customers.”

“Teleperformance has 90,000 employees in India and tens of thousands more in other countries.”

“Sanas has been criticised in the past for making people’s voices “sound whiter”. The company says that call centre workers like the technology and it leads to more opportunities in countries such as India and The Philippines.”

It is already used by companies including Walmart and UPS.”

Last edited 5 months ago by Heretic
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Rusty123
Rusty123
5 months ago

I thought this was an April fools joke at first, shows what lengths people will go to ,to get money they havent earnt, disgusting that it should have happened, hope he got made redundant!.

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Kornea112
Kornea112
5 months ago

The Peter Principle is alive and well represented in the judiciary today. Completely devoid of common sense.

Last edited 5 months ago by Kornea112
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