Security News > 2021 > March > Ex-asylum seeker with infosec degree loses discrimination claim against UK cyber range provider after storming out
A former asylum seeker with a postgraduate degree in cybersecurity who alleged his bosses were spying on him for MI5 has lost his attempt to claim he was racially discriminated against.
The anonymous man, who worked for an unnamed company that set up a UK cyber range in mid-2019, told the Employment Tribunal that he had quit after being subjected to racial harassment at work - but judges overruled all of his legal claims.
Conceived as a new line of business, the cyber range was set up in March 2019 by the company's European cybersecurity personnel.
"Managers did not realise that there were still problems with some of the range's computers," said the tribunal, adding: "As the Claimant hit a problem with a computer, he would revert to working on the range laptop."
It came to a head with a shouting match, with the man storming off home after telling Mr A "No, you leave the room!" Shortly afterwards he resigned, before filing an employment tribunal claim alleging a dozen different forms of mistreatment by his bosses, including that he would have to give up his annual leave to attend CISSP training.
The tribunal ruled that the company, which was also anonymised in its judgment, had not racially discriminated against the man, nor harassed him because of his race - and neither had it constructively dismissed him.