The reason for his gesture he said, was to eliminate the bad smell. But the Italian food concern has been forced to organise an anti-racism course by the court, which all employees must attend after a judge cataloged the facts as “racial harassment”.
The whole affair was filmed in a video shot by another employee, which then made the rounds on Facebook, resulting in controversy and comments of all kinds, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported.
The images in question was taken in January of last year in a kitchen of a well-known chain of pizzerias, namely the Rossopomodoro franchised restaurant of the Central Station of Milan.
One girl had posted the video denouncing how foreigners were treated in her workplace. The video showed an Italian pizza chef who had called immigrant colleagues from Africa one by one and sprayed them with deodorant, also making them lift their shirts.
While doing so, the chef asked for explanations on why his colleagues refused to use deodorant, making fun of them. All those present at the scene laughed – including the foreigners – and one shouted “disinfestation”.
After the clamor as a result of the video being posted on Facebook and, consequently, in newspapers and on television, the company dissociated itself from the “discriminatory” behavior of the Italians involved, and stressed, in a note, that such “discriminatory behavior that does not belong neither by custom, nor by tradition, nor by vocation to the company of Neapolitan origin”.
The Africans then turned to lawyers of a Rights and Labour law firm who had filed a complaint against the pizza maker at the section of the Civil Court of Milan. Rossopomodoro was forced to open an internal investigation to ascertain the dynamics of the facts and take measures necessary to preserve the integrity of the company.
On Friday 24 January, Judge Manuela Sara Moglia sentenced both the employee for harassment and racial discrimination, as well as the employer, because, with his behavior, he created a “non-inclusive, non-welcoming, negative work environment for some people”.
The company is also being been forced to organise a course against racism, in which all employees who, thanks to the intervention of experts, “will be approached to address racial issues in order to educate them to the due respect to which every citizen is entitled through origin or ethnicity”.
Both the chef and his employer were sentenced by the Court to pay compensation for the alleged “damage” suffered by the Africans.
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Shades of 1984! This whole incident was instigated by an employee who filmed it and ensured it would get wide coverage on the Internet. They saw their role as an informer and enforcer of political correctness. As a result of this workplace behavior, the management and staff have to undergo public condemnation and “re-education” per government diktat.
It seems that Italian society, like so many others in the West, lives in fear and worry about those within it that see their role as being informers against the political correctness they have been indoctrinated with in the schools and in the social media. Such unhappy young people, many with personality disorders, are unfortunately effective tools of the administrative state.
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