The owner of a shop at the China Town shopping centre in Windhoek must pay N$230 000 to a former employee of his store after he violated her dignity by ordering her to take off her work uniform in his shop, a High Court judge has ruled.

Shop owner Li Bailong treated a former employee of his textile shop, Itakeya George, inhumanely "and committed a serious assault that violated her dignity and self-worth", judge Thomas Masuku said in a judgement delivered in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.