Thursday 19 May 2022 04:55 PM Sikh NHS worker loses discrimination claim after comparison to Karate Kid's 'Mr ... trends now
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An NHS worker who sued her bosses for race discrimination after a colleague compared her to the Karate Kid character 'Mr Miyagi' when she killed a fly has lost her claim.
Narinderjeet Kaur Dhillon initially laughed off the comparison to the martial art master from the hit 1984 film, an employment tribunal heard.
Mr Miyagi, a fictional master of the martial art played by award-winning actor Pat Morita, has such quick reflexes he can catch and squash a fly in his fingers.
It was not until Ms Dhillon, who is Sikh, later saw the film on TV that she felt the comment was discriminatory because it compared her to an 'old Chinese man'.
She then attempted to sue the NHS Trust at the tribunal for racism.
However, the panel rejected her claim after ruling she had made it too late and that it not discriminatory.
Narinderjeet Kaur Dhillon initially laughed off the comparison to the martial art master (right) from the hit 1984 film, an employment tribunal heard
The hearing, held in Leeds, heard the comment was made by trainer Karl Ward during a session at Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust, Yorkshire, in October 2017.
The panel heard that the remark was humorous and
