A court has ruled that a British rail conductor who was sacked when he questioned “black privilege” in an online diversity training was unfairly dismissed.
The Free Speech Union (FSU), which backed his case, urged for more “free speech training for employers.”
In May, The Telegraph reported that rail conductor Simon Isherwood was dismissed for gross misconduct after he participated in a video-conference diversity training on white privilege.
At the end of the call, unaware his phone was still on and with 80 staff members still listening in, he said: “You know what I really wanted to ask? And I wish I had, do they have black privilege in other countries? So, if you’re in Ghana?”…