'Pain in a***' | Bullied scientist awarded £60k after being given offensive nickname by colleagues

An NHS scientist has been awarded almost £60,000 after her colleagues gave her an offensive nickname on a work spreadsheet.

An employment tribunal heard Ubah Jama was dubbed ‘paininarse’ on an internal spreadsheet which was accessible across two hospitals.

The hearing found that when the senior biochemist, who’d worked at Queen’s Hospital in Romford since 2019, complained about the offensive nickname, her boss failed to take action to remove it.

Jama, who is of Somali origin, claimed that this was just the latest of several acts of racial discrimination that had occurred over a two-year period at Barking Havering & Redbridge University Hospital NHS Trust in London.