By Jennifer Vanasco
(London) A British labor tribunal has awarded £62,500, about $90,000 US, to a gay man who claimed he was the victim of sexual harassment because a female co-worker jiggled her breasts at him.
Allwyn Rondeau, 47, a security guard at London’s Heathrow Airport, went to the tribunal claiming fellow worker Lucy Chilton, then 42, had repeatedly made sexual advances to him.
When told he was gay, the tribunal heard, Chilton placed his hand on her breast, then told him he “wouldn’t know what to do with a woman anyway.” Nevertheless, he testified that the advances continued.
When he repeatedly turned her down, he said, Chilton falsely accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Rondeau said that after Chilton made the claim to supervisors he was stripped of his pass, suspended, and escorted out of the terminal.
Chilton’s claims were later found to be untrue, but she was not disciplined. No action was taken on Rondeau’s complaint that he was the one who had been the victim of inappropriate behavior.
The tribunal heard that Rondeau sank into a deep depression, is on medication and barely leaves his bedroom.
Following the tribunal’s ruling, Rondeau said he was pleased with the outcome “but it but it wasn’t the money that was important.”
“It was justice that I wanted, against her and the management, for what I have been through every day for the past two years,” he said. “I’m happy but I’m still angry because I know she has not been touched.”
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