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A senior Google employee has claimed she was made redundant from the tech giant as retaliation for reporting her manager for telling clients about his swinger lifestyle and showing them a naked photo of his wife.
Former senior industry head in Google’s UK Sales and Agencies team Victoria Woodall has launched a case in the London Central Employment Tribunal after she was made redundant in March 2024.
In the case, Woodall is alleging she was let go by the company after she reported a manager in her team for misconduct, and this manager was fired for sexual harassment, as reported by the BBC, citing court documents.
Google has rejected Woodall’s claims, instead alleging the former employee had become “paranoid” after blowing the whistle on the manager and that her redundancy was a normal business activity.
The court heard that in August 2022, Woodall said she was contacted by a female client who alleged that during a business lunch, the manager had, unprompted, discussed his and his wife’s lifestyles as “swingers”.
She claimed that he also had bragged about the number of women he had slept with, according to the report.
Woodall said she was told by another client that the same manager had shown them a naked photo of his wife while scrolling through photos on his phone.
Woodall reported these concerns to the managing director of her team, and Google launched an internal...
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