Racism row | HR probe into black worker's sex life 'wouldn't have happened if she was white'

HR probe into black worker's sex life 'wouldn't have happened if she was white'

The treatment of a black woman, whose workplace assigned an "all-white" panel to investigate her private life, would not have happened if she was white, a tribunal has said.

As reported by The Guardian, Sonia Warner, a civil servant, was working for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office when bosses subjected her to a six-month long internal investigation.

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