Telling a new junior colleague ‘You’re my bitch now’ is not harassment, a tribunal has ruled.
Radio station manager Gavin Harper made the comment ‘as a joke’ when he felt that new employee Craig Milne was not recognising he was subordinate to him.
It was taken as a joke by everyone that heard and Mr Milne had not immediately complained.
But when Mr Milne fell out with his colleagues in the following week, he raised the incident of the comment and demanded an investigation.
Mr Milne argued the comment made him ‘feel degraded and worthless as a person’ and sued his employer, Coast Radio, in
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