A five-month-long probe uncovered disturbing accounts of MPs regularly demeaning and berating staff leaving them feeling scared and isolated.
She also alleged that she told"senior people in the Labour Party," but that they were dismissive.A Labour Party spokesperson said:"We take accounts of bullying and harassment in the workplace like these very seriously and encourage anyone affected by such behaviour to report it."Others that spoke anonymously to Sky News described unstable employment conditions that enabled staff to be forced out of their jobs or fired on a whim.
She said:"I was in a meeting with him. He said: 'Look, the organisation isn't equipped to deal with somebody like you'."They questioned the medication that I took and my suitability for a role. They said that in the first place that maybe a high-stress job just wasn't suitable for people like me." "She wrote a stupid message when she was drunk - and sent it from an account the team all had access to - and then when she saw the response it got, she blamed my colleague for it and fired him," she said.In 2018 the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme was created to provide an independent resource for anyone working in Parliament to report harassment and bullying.
Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom, who was the driving force behind setting up the ICGS when she was the Leader of the Commons, urged anyone being subjected to exploitation at work to use the scheme, but she conceded that the process often takes too long."It will look after you," she told Sky News."And it is being improved as time goes by.
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