
Actions of City Council’s ‘windy’ manager amounted to age discrimination
A caretaker for Birmingham City Council has won a tribunal case after he was subject to a series of incidents involving bullying and threats of violence, including his manager deliberately breaking wind on him while he was eating lunch. This incident occurred just two months after the caretaker, who was granted anonymity by the tribunal, joined the council in October 2020. The tribunal heard how his manager was said to have found it ‘amusing’ to break wind on his younger