Andy Wood, boss of brewer Adnams, says his company is considering its membership of the group.
Andy Wood, chief executive of Adnams, spoke at the annual meeting of the CBI in 2014The CBI business group is in a "very difficult place" as it faces several allegations of sexual misconduct, the boss of one of its member firms said.
The decision came after the CBI, which is one of Britain's largest business groups representing more than 190,000 businesses, announced it was postponing all of its public events, including its annual dinner. Some company executives, who are members of the CBI, have described the situation as an existential crisis for the organisation.Mr Wood, who runs Adnams in Southwold, Suffolk, said he would "prefer" the CBI to "sort itself out" but added the group needed to be "setting the standards here and where we are at the moment is unacceptable".
"Reputations take decades to build and moments to destroy," he added. "The CBI need to get on with this and sort it out quickly and restore our trust and confidence in the organisation." The most serious allegation facing the CBI is from a woman who said she was raped by a senior colleague at a CBI summer boat party in 2019.that she felt let down by a CBI manager who, she said, advised her to seek out counselling rather than pursue the matter further.
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