The woman is in line to receive almost £13,000 after an employment tribunal ruled in her favour Kady Reilly, who is vegan, was subjected to taunts by Himanshu Lahar who waved meat in her face, encouraged her to handle it and ridiculed her allergies.
He taunted her about her lifestyle choice and made disparaging comments about her appearance, an employment tribunal heard. He waved meat under her nose and said ‘go on, eat it, what could happen?’ adding ‘eat like a man, walk like a bull’.Serving dairy cheese to vegan diners when they ran out of plant-based alternativesRefusing to throw away meatballs that had been out for 10 hoursShe took the owners of the franchise, RT Management Bridgeton Limited, to a tribunal which found in her favour, adding that her boss’s comments went against the Equality Act because veganism is classed as a philosophical belief.
Why would a vegan work at a subways if they have to handle meat anyway?
But isn’t £13,000 too much?But why be vegan anyway? I don’t really want to have a restricted diet. Jeremy Keller BBC
Fair enough. Sounds like he was very unpleasant to work with and for.