Work Party Harassment And Vento Bands Updates

Starplan Furniture Limited (Starplan) was ordered by the Industrial Tribunals in Northern Ireland to pay £18,857 to an employee after she claimed and they found that she had been the victim of sexual harassment, victimisation and constructive unfair dismissal after she had been sexually harassed verbally and physically at a work Christmas party and subsequently resigned.

The employee had claimed that, since the events at the Christmas party and disclosing the events to Starplan by way of a grievance, she was subjected to victimisation from her colleagues as they used intimidating and abusive language and behaviour towards her because the colleagues supported the perpetrator. These events led her to resign.