Lawyer sacked after objecting to nude portrait

Posted By: James

Tuesday 17th February 2015

A city lawyer claims she was sacked after objecting to a boss circulating a nude portrait of his wife to staff. Margaret Rowe told a tribunal she lost her £184,000 a year job at Fidelity Worldwide Investment because she refused to act like a woman who “knows her place.” However, the asset management firm says there was nothing prurient about the portrait, which had been featured in an art exhibition. Ms Rowe complained of victimisation last year after alleging she had not been given a proper chance to apply for a promotion, but she was fired after an independent investigation found no evidence of sex discrimination or bullying.

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