Nirosha Sithirapathy had argued that she was sexually harassed and discriminated againstA lawyer who claimed she was wrongly sacked from her £100,000 a year job after being sexually harassed has lost her case after a judge warned against “encouraging a culture of hyper-sensitivity”. Nirosha Sithirapathy, who worked as legal counsel at pharmaceutical research company PSI CRO UK, argued that she was discriminated against because of her age and sex. SponsoredShe told the hearing in Reading that her manager, Martin Schmidt, had questioned why she did not want to take up another role in Switzerland. When she said she was not interested because of personal reason, he replied: “What personal reasons? Schmidt was also said to have told an anecdote during the
Source: The Times August 02, 2021 18:45 UTC