Claimant v Mondelez UK Confectionery Production Limited

The tribunal heard evidence over four days and found that the claimant had not established facts from which it could conclude that direct race discrimination had occurred. The respondent's treatment of the claimant was found to have no connection to the claimant's race.

The tribunal found that the claimant had not established that they were treated less favourably because of their religion or belief. The evidence did not support a finding that religion or belief was a reason for any treatment complained of.

The tribunal concluded that the conduct complained of did not relate to the protected characteristic of race and/or did not have the purpose or effect of violating the claimant's dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment in the required sense.

The tribunal found that the conduct complained of did not relate to the protected characteristic of religion or belief and/or did not have the purpose or effect of violating the claimant's dignity or creating the proscribed environment under section 26 of the Equality Act 2010.