A Sikh NHS worker has twice failed to convince a tribunal she was subjected to racial discrimination after she killed a fly at a training session, at an NHS hospital, when a colleague compared her to Mr Miyagi from Karate Kid.
The famous Karate Kid scene sees a Japanese martial arts master snare the bug with chopsticks
Six months later she lodged a bullying claim with HR in which she claimed Mr Ward had reacted by comparing her to Mr Miyagi, who famously achieved the same feat with just a pair of chopsticks. In March this year, two weeks before the first hearing of the claim, Ms Dhillon asked the tribunal to add a claim of racial discrimination.She said the joke was racist because it ‘compared her to an old Chinese man, and because there is a separate and distinct martial arts culture within her own Sikh tradition’.
But the tribunal ruled there was ‘no reasonable prospect’ that the comment could be seen as discriminatory, that it was ‘made because of [her] race’, or that she had been treated unfairly as a result. The iconic character has often featured in racist jokes at the expense of people with East Asian heritage living in the UK and US
The claim was rejected ‘in its entirety’ in April, with the tribunal upholding the trust’s decision to sack Ms Dhillon.
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