The High Court in the UK has ruled that calling a man 'bald' is considered sexual harassment.
The decision was made by an employment tribunal that noted that using the word 'bald' in relation to a man could breach equality laws as it is 'inherently related to sex'.
The Court made the decision following a lengthy legal case filed by electrician Tony Finn, who claimed that he was sexually harassed during an argument he had with his supervisor at the British Bung Company in 2019.
According to Finn, his supervisor Jamie King had called him bald during an argument on the shop floor.
Finn took the manufacturing company to an Employment Appeals Tribunal in 2021 when he was dismissed.
In February 2022, the Tribunal ruled in Finn's favour. His employers soon appealed the decision.
However, in 2023 the tribunal dismissed the British Bung Company's appeal, which centred around the argument that both men and women can be bald.
Overseeing the appeals process, Ms. Justice Naomi Ellenbogen DBE stated that Mr King's baldness remarks were 'inherently related to sex'.
Finn will finally get his compensation, five years after he was dismissed from his job.
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