Executive assistant reprimanded by CEO over unsuitable flight booking
Winton Capital Limited has been ordered to pay over $100,000 to a former executive assistant who was verbally mistreated by her boss after an unsuitable flight booking.
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) issued the order after finding that Winton Capital constructively dismissed former executive assistant Leah McCann.
McCann, who had worked at Winton Capital since December 2022, alleged that her employer, CEO Chris Meehan, verbally mistreated her following an international flight booking that resulted in a seat she arranged for him being deemed unsuitable.
As heard by the ERA, Meehan got seated in a flight from Dubai to Auckland in a seat between the toilet and the bar in the middle of a thoroughfare.
Meehan said the seat was "arguably worse than an economy seat" and that he had no sleep on the flights home.
According to the CEO, McCann should have checked where his seat was and found out, if she didn't know at first, if the seat was a good or a bad one.
The ERA heard that Meehan called McCann on the drive from the airport following the flights, where the EA reportedly received curses from her boss.
"This is your f*cking job, what the f*ck have you been doing for the last three f*cking weeks?" McCann recalled Meehan telling her during the call. "Just what the fuck have you been doing for the last three weeks, Leah, this is your fucking job, and you should know this."
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