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Telling someone with a foreign accent you can’t understand them could be racial harassment, a senior tribunal judge has said. Commenting on or criticising the way someone from another country or ethnic group speaks could breach employment law, Judge James Tayler said. The senior circuit judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) made the ruling following a case about a university worker who sued when she received criticism over her “strong” Brazilian accent. Elaine Carozzi took the University of Hertfordshire to an employment tribunal, claiming she suffered racial discrimination and harassment over comments about her accent. Although the marketing manager had a good grasp of the English language, managers at the institution had allegedly struggled to understand what she was saying.

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