Royal Mail | Scottish worker accused manager of racism because he 'couldn't understand his accent'

A Scottish Royal Mail employee accused an English colleague of being racist after saying he ‘couldn’t understand’ his accent, a tribunal heard.

Pete McCalam claimed manager Alan Wiggs was ‘a little bit racist’ after repeatedly telling him he couldn't understand what he was saying.

An employment tribunal dismissed the claims after ruling that the actual reason Wiggs couldn’t understand his colleague was not because of his Scottish accent, but because he was talking too fast.

However, McCalam was victorious in a separate claim of harassment, after a different manger called him at home to ask why he was off work, while he’d been sick with stress.