Payout for lab assistant compared by boss to `man who killed MP in Southend´
A student lab assistant compared by his 経営者／支配人 to “the man who killed the MP in Southend” has won a payout for 申し立てられた／疑わしい 差別.
Months after Waqas Rai was 解雇（する）d from his university placement 職業, the former 経営者／支配人 gave a lecture to his course in which he was heard discussing 解任するing the 23-year-old because he thought he had been “radicalised”.
Micropathology, a lab services company based in Coventry which 持つ／拘留するs 契約s with the NHS, 解雇する／砲火／射撃d Mr Rai without notice in December 2021.
The lecture was 記録，記録的な／記録するd and uploaded to the internet for Mr Rai and his course mates on the biomedical science undergraduate course at Warwick University to 見解（をとる）.
In later correspondence with the university, the 経営者／支配人 explicitly compared Mr Rai, who is イスラム教徒, to “the man who killed the MP in Southend”.
Sir David Amess MP was killed in 2021 by Ali Harbi Ali, who was 罪人／有罪を宣告するd of 殺人 and the 準備 of テロリスト 行為／法令／行動するs.
Ali Harbi Ali killed MP Sir David Amess (主要都市の Police/PA)
Mr Rai’s 解雇／（訴訟の）却下 part way through the placement jeopardised his 熟考する／考慮するs. At one point he was told by Warwick University he would not be able to pass the year without 完全にするing the necessary 量 of weeks.
It also 影響する／感情d him in his final year, when he 設立する he had いっそう少なく lab experience than his peers.
“At that time when you’re in your final year, they 推定する／予想する you to know 確かな things,” he told the PA news 機関.
The 経営者／支配人 ? who has not been 指名するd ? 述べるd Mr Rai as “very intelligent” but said his “全く passive” behaviour was an 指示，表示する物 that he had been radicalised.
When he 見解（をとる）d the lecture, Mr Rai said he “put two and two together” and “（機の）カム to 結論 that this was the 推論する／理由 why I had been 解任するd.”
Mr Rai, from London, took Micropathology to an 雇用 法廷, but the parties settled before a final 審理，公聴会.
The 公表されていない 解決／入植地 does not 含む／封じ込める an admission of 義務／負債 on the part of Micropathology, but the company did 表明する “悔いる” for any offence 原因（となる）d and 誓約（する）d to carry out equality and 多様制 training.
Mr Rai, who was supported by the Equality and Human 権利s （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限, said the episode had 影響する／感情d his mental health and made him feel “anxious about continuing to work in the 産業”.
“I was やめる distraught… it shouldn’t have happened,” he said.
“Every time I join a new 会・原則 or start a new 職業, I feel like I’m always going to be paranoid about what people think.
“At first, I felt 脅すd to speak up about it myself. I didn’t know who to go to, and I felt that a lot of students or people around my age that go through this sort of thing don’t know there are people there to help.
“I worry I’m not able to be myself because of what people might be thinking about me.
“I hope that 株ing my experience can help 妨げる it from happening to others in the 未来, but to anyone who’s been 扱う／治療するd like I have, I want to say that there is help out there.”
Mr Rai, who is now 完全にするing a 内科医 associate masters degree at the University of East London, worried 存在 解任するd could stay “on his 記録，記録的な／記録する” and make it harder to find 職業s in the 未来.
His lawyer, Asif Timol, 追加するd: “Some of these 条件 now they’ve been so weaponised with the 現在の political 気候 that the 関わりあい／含蓄 as a イスラム教徒, is 抱擁する.”
A 声明 published on the Micropathology website, which was not せいにするd to a particular 経営者／支配人, 表明するd “悔いる” for any offence 原因（となる）d to Mr Rai.
The 声明 continued: “The 記録，記録的な／記録するing and その後の 伝達／伝染 of what I thought was a 私的な conversation with a third party individual was 完全に regretful.
“I would like to 保証する Mr Rai, that my comments… were not 動機づけるd by Mr Rai’s race or 宗教 neither of which I knew.
“I 受託する that there are lessons to be learned from this experience… I, together with other 上級の staff, will also arrange for training on equal 適切な時期s 問題／発行するs.
“I 悔いる any upset, offence or 苦しめる 原因（となる）d and I would like to wish Mr Rai all the best in his 未来 endeavours.”
Baroness Kishwer Falkner, chairwoman of the Equality and Human 権利s （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限, said the manner of Mr Rai’s 解雇／（訴訟の）却下?and the “comments subsequently made about him in an 試みる／企てる to 正当化する it are 全く 容認できない”.
“Everyone has the 権利 to go to work without worrying they’re going to be 扱う／治療するd 異なって because of their race or 宗教,” she 追加するd.
“On this occasion the comments were 株d 公然と, but it doesn’t 事柄 whether they were made in a lecture hall, a 研究室／実験室, an office or even in an email ? 差別 should not be 許容するd anywhere.”
