A tribunal has upheld a ruling that a former council worker sacked from his role over comments about Nazism was unfairly dismissed and should be reinstated.

The Guardian reports that Hammersmith and Fulham council has been ordered to pay Stan Keable around £70,000 in damages for lost earnings or even more if it refuses to reinstate him. 

A spokesperson for the council told the newspaper it was “disappointed with the judgement”. 

"We are considering our options," the local authority later told the JC.

Mr Keable was dismissed in 2018 from his full-time role as a public protection and safety officer for the local authority.

A widely-shared clip saw him tell an Enough is Enough protester that “the Zionist movement at that time collaborated” with the Nazis, sparking criticism from local MP Greg Hands.

Mr Keable, who is secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt, had attended a nearby counter-demonstration organised by Jewish Voice for Labour.

The local authority accepted during a disciplinary process that the conversation related to the Haavara Agreement of 1933, according to a judgement handed down Tuesday.

“In this particular case, the Judge found that the claimant’s dismissal was not only procedurally unfair but also substantively unfair."

Further, the judge concluded that, “even if a fair procedure [had] been adopted, a fair dismissal would not have been possible. 

“There is no appeal against those conclusions,” the appeal tribunal concluded.

In a statement on the LAW website, Mr Keable's barrister David Renton said “This is the first time in nearly a decade that an appeal court has upheld an order that a worker should be reinstated. Hammersmith and Fulham should now do the right thing and let him have his old job back.”