Brit woman gets £35k sexual harassment payout after boss gropes her
London: A British saleswoman has got 35,000 pounds in a sexual
harassment case against her boss after he groped her bottom during a business trip. Nicola Furlong, 39, who earned up to 90,000 pounds a year, said she was
groped on a sales conference to Nashville, Tennessee, with male workmates from
BMC, of Egham, Surrey, reports the Sun. She revealed that her boss Bart Fanelli
put his hand up her skirt, fondled her and said he would like to "eat her like
a marshmallow". She said she was later "warned off" from making a formal complaint
against Fanelli, a senior vice president at the US parent company of her firm
BMC Software Limited. The single mum, the only woman in the UK team, was also
jeered when she refused to go into a lap-dancing club - where clients were often
taken to clinch deals. She said her managing director said she "would have been
up on the table with her t**s out". The tribunal in Reading, Berks, ruled a claim
of sex discrimination "well founded".
