Giving a colleague an “air kiss” does not amount to sexual harassment, a UK employment judge has ruled. Judge Perry said the gesture, a trope in the 1990s British comedy Absolutely Fabulous, could not be regarded as “unwanted conduct of a sexual nature”. The ruling came at the end of the case of a hospitality worker, Jing Jing Chen, who made allegations against a whisky bar and her fellow employees there. Chen claimed she was sexually harassed by her manager, Paul de Newtown, who, the tribunal heard, hugged her after walking her home following shifts at the Cut Your Wolf
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