Woman 告訴するs bank for £10m

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 08:49 BST, 16 January 2006

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A HIGH-FLYING 銀行業者 is 告訴するing her city bosses for £10m in the 最新の 'sexism in the city' 事例／患者.

Claire 有望な （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that にもかかわらず 存在 in charg e of £140bn in 資産s, she was 一時停止するd by a sexist HBOS 経営者／支配人 dubbed a '小型の Hitler'.

The 銀行業者 was today 開始する，打ち上げるing a 企て，努力，提案 to return to work in the City, where she was 責任がある a 一連の major 取引，協定s.

Her 事例／患者 is the 最新の in a 一連の 性の 差別 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs to be 直面するd by City 会社／堅いs and comes days after an £800m 告訴 was brought by six women in London and New York.

Ms 有望な （人命などを）奪う，主張するs she was 一時停止するd in October by bosses at HBOS (the Halifax Bank of Scotland group) 'without 推論する／理由' after she complained about her 経営者／支配人's behaviour.

She 主張するs that the man at the centre of the 列／漕ぐ／騒動, Cliff Pattenden, 'disrespected, demeaned, overruled, micromanaged and humiliated' her because of her sex.

The 47-year-old, 雇うd by HBOS in October 2004 as 長，率いる of 資産 and 義務／負債 管理／経営 in its 財務省 department, was in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of a team of 60 people running £140bn in 資産s.

She had been 予定 to 受託する a 'borrower of the year' award tonight at an 産業 儀式, but was told not to go and a more junior member of staff was sent in her place.

In her £10m （人命などを）奪う，主張する for 性の 差別, Ms 有望な 主張するs Mr Pattenden was 'boorish and 土台を崩すing', 追加するing that 'he 陳列する，発揮するd an egotistical and 水銀の character' and gave her little support or 激励, 'unlike his 治療 of other male 同僚s'.

Ms 有望な said he would often speak to her staff behind her 支援する. When he began an 内部の grievance 手続き against her, he 認める emailing her staff 直接／まっすぐに rather than going through her, she said.

She told the 法廷 that staff regarded a 覚え書き he sent on working from home in special circumstances as '小型の-Hitler stuff'. And she also （刑事）被告 him of changing the structure of 会合s so that she could not speak.

Ms 有望な has told the 雇用 法廷 that she was 賞賛するd for her work by one of HBOS's 非，不，無-(n)役員／(a)執行力のある directors and （機の）カム to work for the 会社／堅い with 'an 絶対 glowing 言及／関連'.

HBOS 訴える手段／行楽地d to calling in a 管理／経営 consultancy 会社／堅い to 報告（する）／憶測 on her team's 見解（をとる）s of each other and their bosses. In it Mr Pattenden had been ひどく criticised. One comment said there was 'not a 抱擁する 量 of 非難する culture and いじめ（る）ing except for Cliff who is the dissonant one here' while another 述べるd him as 'wanting it all now'.

行方不明になる 有望な 主張するs that he said her work was '率直に was not good enough', and 述べるd a 贈呈 she made as 'making 絶対 no sense どれでも' and 存在 'all over the place'.

An HBOS 広報担当者 said: 'We are aware of this 事例／患者 and we have a vigorous 過程 in place to を取り引きする these 事柄s and that 過程 is 現在進行中の. 扱う／治療するing our 同僚s 公正に／かなり is very important to HBOS 財務省.'

Last week six 高度に paid women とじ込み／提出するd an £800m 告訴 against 投資 bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. They 主張する that male (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs いじめ（る）d their 女性（の） 同僚s, entertained （弁護士の）依頼人s at （土地などの）細長い一片 clubs and even brought 売春婦s 支援する to the office.

London-based Katherine Smith, one of the six, （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that her boss compared her to Pamela Anderson and 支配するd her to humiliating 性の banter.