Tribunal hearing | Casino employee loses age discrimination case after being told to 'grow up'

A casino employee has lost an age and racial discrimination case after being told to “grow up” by a colleague during an argument and referred to as a "black girl" when she fell over.

Merona Marcello Mariotti, a waitress at the Leicester Square casino Hippodrome, told a judge that the casino’s bar supervisor, Maria Krasovska, had told her to “grow up” and asked her to "not quarrel with a younger waitress" after an argument broke out between the two.

Mariotti claims she was told by Krasovska “not to expect the youngsters to do the work”, but Krasovska says this was a ‘misinterpretation’ of her words.

Yet, the judge on the employment tribunal said the “grow up” remark indicated that Krasovska thought Mariotti had “behaved in an immature way and should have been more retrained’, and that this remark was not “less favourable treatment because of age”.