A rise in workplace bullying complaints can be put down to evolving standards of acceptable workplace behaviour, rather than the age or generation of complainants, employment lawyers have said, after the Deputy Prime Minister resigned yesterday over bullying claims.
Dominic Raab resigned from the Government today after a report upheld two of eight bullying allegations against him.
The investigation from Adam Tolley KC concluded that Mr Raab’s conducted amounted to bullying when he was both foreign secretary and justice secretary. As foreign secretary he engaged in “punitive behaviour”, and a “misuse of power in a way that undermines or humiliates”, Mr Tolley found. As justice secretary he was “intimidating”, and “insulting” in his behaviour, on occasion describing an official’s work as “utterly useless” and “woeful”.
Mr Raab has denied he was a bully and said that “the threshold” for bullying should not be set so low.
Max Winthrop, a partner at Sintons law firm who has specialised in employment law for over 30 years, said the number of discrimination claims involving bullying had risen since the the 80s.
He said he had seen people of all ages make complaints, from those in their twenties to people in their sixties. What had changed, however, was the perception of what was acceptable...
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