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Tribunal gives driver go-ahead to make race discrimination claim
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,N EMPLOY MENT Tribunal has given a trainee .uck driver the green light to proceed with a case Ileging racial discrimination against his employer ieoPost of Smethwick,West Midlands.
Sabgur Sattar fromTiption alleged at a Birmingham .mployment Tribunal preliminary hearing that he as treated less favourably than thers because he is Pakistani. He ided that he was bullied. victimised id harassed by management and riployees and discriminated against racial grounds.
GeoPost said Sattar had not irried out the correct procedure in :gistering his grievances against the In. But Tribunal chair Susan Monk :cided Sattar's claims could go ahead a full hearing later this year. Sattar had joined the firm with the intention of becoming a qualified truck driver hut said he was not given adequate train ing,and failed his driving test as a result. He claimed others failed tests and were found different jobs, but he was not offered another position. Employees used abusive language against him and he was refused compassionate leave when his father died." I am owed wages and eventually I lost my employment," he said.
GeoPost denied the allegations and said it would oppose Sattar's claims. It rejected an offer by Susan Monk to attend a Tribunal mediation session aimed at resolving the issues before a full hearing and warned that it would seek legal costs against Sattar if he lost the case.