A hospital orderly who was immediately suspended pending an investigation following an incident, when a nurse who was involved in an equally serious incident was simply counselled, suffered a detriment and was unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of race, holds a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: J R W Worrall) in Dan v United Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust Ltd.
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