{"id":657907,"date":"2025-12-27T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657907\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:47:10","slug":"west-wickham-kfc-franchisee-to-pay-70k-fine-over-slave-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/657907\/","title":{"rendered":"West Wickham KFC franchisee to pay \u00a370k fine over &#8216;slave&#8217; comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A south-east London KFC franchisee has been made to pay nearly \u00a370,000 after a manager called an Indian worker a &#8220;slave&#8221; and forced him to work extra hours, a tribunal heard.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Madhesh Ravichandran, from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, began working at the West Wickham KFC branch in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two months later, Mr Ravichandran was refused annual leave and heard his boss Kajan Theiventhiram telling a colleague he would prioritise Sri Lankan Tamil staff and referred to the claimant as &#8220;this slave&#8221;, the tribunal was told.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tribunal judge Paul Abbott found that Mr Ravichandran was wrongfully dismissed and subjected to direct race discrimination, harassment related to race and victimisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A south-east London KFC franchisee has been made to pay nearly \u00a370,000 after a manager called an Indian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-657907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791845407466141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}