'Rude & difficult' | Firm was entitled to withdraw job offer from would-be worker during onboarding process

A firm was within its rights to withdraw a job offer from a “rude and difficult” would-be worker during the onboarding process, an employment tribunal has ruled.

Mr S Lasdas (the claimant) unsuccessfully sued law firm Keoghs LLP (the respondent) for race discrimination and victimisation, after the offer of a fixed term IT role was pulled.

Lasdas was reportedly “rude, uncooperative, aggressive” and “patronising” during an onboarding meeting, leading the firm to decide Lasdas would no longer be brought into the firm.

Lasdas claimed he was treated less favourably because of his nationality, and that he had been “pressed…unreasonably about evidence of his right to live and work in the UK”.