每日英語跟讀 Ep.K222: About the UK - Former Receptionist Gets £23,000 After Being Excluded From Pizza Parties

Malgorzata Lewicka was a former receptionist at Harwell, the Ford car dealership in UK.

馬爾戈札塔．萊威卡是英國福特汽車經銷商哈威爾的前接待員。

Managers at the car dealership conducted office parties where they asked the staff members to choose a takeaway food that they would like to order every month. It included pizza and other fast food choices. Lewicka said to the tribunal that she was neither asked nor invited.

公司管理層會舉辦辦公室派對，要員工每月選擇想吃的外賣，包含披薩等速食。萊威卡向法庭表示，她既沒詢問，也沒受邀。

She revealed that in March 2018, she accused a staff member of sexual discrimination, after which her colleagues started excluding her.

她透露，自己曾在2018年3月指控一名同事性別歧視，之後就開始被同事排擠。

Hartwell claimed that Lewicka was not involved in the parties because she worked part-time and wound up at 1 p.m. But the tribunal declared that it was not an excuse.

哈威爾公司則宣稱，萊威卡沒參加派對是因為她還有兼職，在下午1點就下班，但法庭認為這不構成理由。

The judge ruled Lewicka’s exclusion at her former workplace to be a form of sexual discrimination. She was subsequently awarded £23,079. This included compensation for injury to her feelings as well as loss of earnings.

法官宣判，萊威卡在前職場遭到排擠是性別歧視的一種。她之後獲賠2萬3079英鎊（約90萬台幣），包含心理創傷賠償和收入損失。

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Banksy shows off his British seaside ’spraycation’ 班克西炫耀他的英國海邊「噴漆渡假」

Banksy, Britain’s most famous street artist, on Friday confirmed what many had already suspected － that he is indeed the author of a number of works that have appeared recently in British seaside towns.

班克西，英國最有名的街頭藝術家，在週五證實許多人已經懷疑的事：他確實是最近在英國海濱城鎮出現的一些作品的作者。

An Instagram video clip, just over three minutes long and entitled "A Great British Spraycation", shows the elusive artist taking a summer road trip in a beat-up camper van with cans of spray paint stashed in a cooler.

Instagram上一段3分多鐘長、名為「一場精彩的英國噴漆渡假」影片顯示，這名神出鬼沒的藝術家，搭著一部破舊的露營車進行一場夏季公路旅行，保冰箱裡堆了多罐噴漆。

In one work on the concrete sea-defence wall of a British beach, a rat lounges in a deckchair, sipping a cocktail.

一幅在一處英國海邊水泥防波堤上的作品，是一隻老鼠在一張躺椅上悠哉地啜飲雞尾酒。

In another, sticking to the seaside theme, a mechanical claw dangles above a public bench － as if anyone who sits there is about to be plucked up like a prize in an arcade game.

在另一幅依照海邊主題的作品中，一隻機械爪懸在公共長椅上，若有人坐在椅子上，看起來就像抓娃娃機中的獎品一樣就要被抓起來。Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1471762 ; https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1472924