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She was dismissed after raising concerns about health and safety on Star Wars: The Acolyte, which was released in 2024

A Nottingham mum who was sacked from a Star Wars film set for calling a colleague "white man" has won her legal case against her former employer. Sadi Khan, 52, was employed by the production company Blue Stockings, which is owned by the Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm, and had been working as a health and safety supervisor on television series The Acolyte.

However, she was summarily dismissed for gross misconduct in November 2022, with a tribunal hearing told this was because she had referred to a man who was hired to work above her as a “white man” and made inappropriate comments to her colleagues. Ms Khan, who is of Kashmiri heritage and was awarded an

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