Race discrimination | 'Reprehensible' Greggs boss threatened staff who planned to report him to HR

A Greggs worker has won compensation in a racial discrimination case after a manager threatened him and two colleagues in a “reprehensible” rage.

The winner of the case, Solomon Kahsay, and two other junior colleagues, Yonas Tesfamariam and Robeil Araya, were under investigation over accusations they were taking unauthorised breaks and falsifying their attendance, the tribunal heard.

But Kahsay, and his two co-workers, said they felt they were being treated differently by their manager, Craig Dixon, due to their race during the investigation.

According to emails sent to Dixon from the site’s service supervisor, the three workers were “not happy with the way in which he was managing the investigation” and were to “go ahead with the allegation of race discrimination”.