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01/08/2006
Bullied City worker receives £800,000
A City worker who claimed that she worked in the "department from hell" has won around £800,000 in a bullying case against Deutsche Bank at the High Court.
Helen Green, 36, from Tower Hamlets, east London worked in the secretariat division at Deutsche Bank Group Services between 1997 and 2001.
She claimed to have been targeted for bullying by four other women in the department for no apparent reason. The bullying included verbal abuse and being ignored in the office.
Miss Green denied doing anything to justify the behaviour of the other women and denied that she had ever talked down to them.
Miss Green was promoted twice while working for Deutsche Bank, but ended up receiving stress counselling, paid for by the company, in March 2000, as well as assertiveness training.
However, later that year, Miss Green suffered a nervous breakdown and was admitted to hospital on suicide watch.
She returned to work five months later, but suffered a relapse. Her employment was eventually terminated in September 2003.
At the High Court on Tuesday, Mr Justice Owen said that Miss Green had been subjected to "a relentless campaign of mean and spiteful behaviour designed to cause her distress". He said that the behaviour had amounted to "a deliberate and concerted campaign of bullying".
Miss Green was awarded £35,000 for pain and suffering, £25,000 for her disadvantage on the labour market, £128,000 for lost earnings and £640,000 for future loss of earnings, including a pension.
Deutsche Bank will also have to pay Miss Green's legal cost, with an interim payment of £350,000.
Deutsche Bank had denied that Miss Green was bullied, instead suggesting it was Miss Green's vulnerability to mental illness.
(KMcA)
Helen Green, 36, from Tower Hamlets, east London worked in the secretariat division at Deutsche Bank Group Services between 1997 and 2001.
She claimed to have been targeted for bullying by four other women in the department for no apparent reason. The bullying included verbal abuse and being ignored in the office.
Miss Green denied doing anything to justify the behaviour of the other women and denied that she had ever talked down to them.
Miss Green was promoted twice while working for Deutsche Bank, but ended up receiving stress counselling, paid for by the company, in March 2000, as well as assertiveness training.
However, later that year, Miss Green suffered a nervous breakdown and was admitted to hospital on suicide watch.
She returned to work five months later, but suffered a relapse. Her employment was eventually terminated in September 2003.
At the High Court on Tuesday, Mr Justice Owen said that Miss Green had been subjected to "a relentless campaign of mean and spiteful behaviour designed to cause her distress". He said that the behaviour had amounted to "a deliberate and concerted campaign of bullying".
Miss Green was awarded £35,000 for pain and suffering, £25,000 for her disadvantage on the labour market, £128,000 for lost earnings and £640,000 for future loss of earnings, including a pension.
Deutsche Bank will also have to pay Miss Green's legal cost, with an interim payment of £350,000.
Deutsche Bank had denied that Miss Green was bullied, instead suggesting it was Miss Green's vulnerability to mental illness.
(KMcA)
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