A Catholic bus driver who suffered sectarian abuse and threats from fellow workers at the Ulsterbus depot in Ballymena, Co Antrim, has been awarded £80,000 by the North's Fair Employment Tribunal.
The amount of damages was increased because of the dismissive attitude of Ulsterbus management at the time.
Gerald Duffy, who is 42 and from Ballymena, suffered the abuse for five years, beginning in 1995.
He was warned by fellow employees at the bus depot he would be shot if the Troubles started again, was subjected to threatening phone calls and unwanted deliveries to his home and had his car damaged.
He was also warned that he could be burned out of his home which was located in a predominantly loyalist housing estate.
Much of the abuse coincided with standoffs at Drumcree.
The payment was deemed to be for financial loss, injury to feelings and personal injury.
Three industrial relations experts described the investigation by the Ulsterbus company as dismissive, high handed and lacking understanding.
