Black worker awarded £27,000 after hearing colleague referred to as golliwog A panel at Bristol Employment Tribunal ruled that Mr Morgan having to listen to the racist nicknames being used had "violated his dignity." During the hearing Mr Morgan also claimed a colleague had told him to "stop speaking that jungle talk," while another delivery driver was not disciplined when he remarked that "black people should be burnt at the stake like the Jews." The tribunal awarded Mr Morgan over £27,000 in compensation for racial harassment and constructive dismissal. But speaking after the case, Ms Miles defiantly branded the judgment "absolutely ridiculous." She said: "Brian Ennis did not have any issues. He is not shy and if he had wanted to bring up the names with me, he would have done. He could hold his own. She added: "The tribunal was the most dodgy, pathetic process I have ever come across in my life." Mr Morgan joined the Gloucester-based firm run by divorcee Ms Miles and her partner Sean Linturn, 44, in September 2007. It had nearly 30 employees and an annual turnover as high as £4.2 million. The drivers earned around £300 per week and swearing was common in the warehouse, the tribunal heard. Ms Miles knew about the racist nicknames distinguishing Brian Ennis from his white colleague Brian Sutton, it found. The panel concluded: "The claimant worked for an employer that tolerated not only racial banter in the workplace but also the expression of extreme forms of racial prejudice. The claimant found this comment to be offensive and was concerned that no steps appeared to be taken to address it. This was known about by Ms Miles. It did not occur to her to take any steps to curb this practice as it did not occur to her that there could be anything wrong with it. Ms Miles was entirely unreceptive to the notion that calling someone by the colour of their skin could cause offence. She had given no thought to finding another way of distinguishing the two Brians that did not involve labelling one of them by the colour of their skin. She had had no training in the principles of equal opportunity and appeared to have an entirely closed mind to what those principles might entail. At the very least we would have expected Ms Miles to have taken some steps to ensure this was not causing offence to Mr Ennis. The idea simply never occurred to her. Ms Miles was an employer who thought it entirely acceptable to distinguish one employee from another by referring to the colour of the skin of the black employee. That Ms Miles had no index of concern about this practice satisfied us further that there was a culture of racism that was tolerated in the workplace. Mr Morgan was awarded £13,427 by the tribunal in 2011 for racial harassment - including £8,000 for injury to feelings and £5,000 aggravated damages. He was recently awarded a further £14,286 for lost earnings from constructive dismissal. But the panel noted that he is unlikely to receive a penny of the latest award as the firm is now in administration.