Well I never knew that....

[Jenasaurus]

Inspired by another thread going down memory lane searching for a shop that they had enjoyed and was now closed. A shop came into my mind that I used to love shopping in and I googled it, just expecting a closure date and maybe a reason why.....but then it opened a can of worms, the manager of the shop fought the corner of 4 people who were sexually harassed by the owner, and for her trouble she was sacked and the people she was fighting for didnt say a word. The shop is Lady at Lord John. And this is the can of worms I found. I am so glad or hope this wouldn't happen today, she was sacked over the phone for reporting sexual harrassment!

tuc150.tuc.org.uk/stories/audrey-white/

I have such happy memories of that shop and never knew its history.

An extract from aboves link

It was shocking to be sacked over the phone.
I said, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.” My manager replied, “Isn’t plain English bloody good enough for you? I’m sacking you.” The company thought they could treat me like garbage but they hadn’t reckoned on me being a union member. The advice from my union was to keep going to work until they sacked me in writing.

We didn’t even know the phrase ‘sexual harassment’ back then.
We learned how bad things were: women came up to us on the picket and said, “I had a wonderful job but my boss would do this, so I had to leave.” And, “I didn’t go along with what the boss wanted, so I got demoted”. When the company finally agreed to meet with us, they wouldn’t discuss the sexual harassment complaints, even though I’d got statements from the girls. They claimed I’d been sacked because I wasn’t ‘bubbly’ enough