In 1996, the Labour Court found that a company sexually harassed a worker and discriminated against her in her working conditions and dismissal. It ordered the company to pay her £3,200. The order was signed on 8 May 1996.
The worker said a manager sexually harassed her during her employment and that she was dismissed as a result. The company’s liquidator could not contest the allegations because the events had occurred before his appointment. The company did not attend the hearing, but the liquidator was represented.
The Court rejected the company director’s suggestion that cultural differences and the worker’s English had caused a misunderstanding. It accepted the worker’s evidence of the behaviour she endured. The Court also noted she had no written contract, no complaints had been made about her work, and she received no satisfactory explanation for her dismissal.