{"id":14483,"date":"2018-01-25T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=14483"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:59:11","slug":"sleazy-and-disgraceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=14483","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Sleazy and disgraceful\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tory politicians and Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business elite have been linked to a sleazy charity dinner where female hostesses ordered to wear revealing outfits and black underwear were allegedly sexually harassed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bI was groped several times, and I know there were numerous other hostesses who said the same thing had happened to them,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 FT reporter Madison Marriage, who went undercover as a hostess at the event, told BBC Newsnight<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHands up skirts, hands on bums, hands on hips, hands on stomachs, hands going round your waist suddenly\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 We knew from women who have worked at it over the last decade that such things go on, which is why we wanted to go in there and see it for ourselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Marriage said one hostess had alleged that a guest exposed his penis to her, while 19-year-old claimed a man in his seventies had asked her if she was a prostitute.<\/p>\n

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The 120 women were reportedly selected for the role by organisers on the basis of being \u00e2\u20ac\u015btall, thin and pretty<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n

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Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s minister Nadhim Zahawi attended the dinner, held by the Presidents Club at the Dorchester Hotel in London last Thursday, while a meal with foreign secretary Boris Johnson \u00e2\u20ac\u201c who didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t attend \u00e2\u20ac\u201c was auctioned to guests.<\/p>\n

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Zahawi, who was not implicated in any allegations, insisted he \u00e2\u20ac\u015bdidn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stay long enough to comment\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 on the dinner.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile Tory donor David Meller, who is the chair of the Presidents Club but attended in a personal capacity, was forced to resign from his role as non-executive director for the Department of Education. The club said it was \u00e2\u20ac\u015bappalled\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 by the allegations and would investigate.<\/p>\n

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The event was attended by 360 senior figures from business, finance, politics and entertainment. The guest list including Top Shop chairman Phillip Green<\/a>, Dragon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Den investor Peter Jones and Ocado boss Tim Steiner.<\/p>\n

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During the charity auction, guests were offered lots for lap dances at a Soho strip club and plastic surgery to \u00e2\u20ac\u015badd spice to your wife\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n

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Daily reality <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Unite national officer for the not for profit sector, Siobhan Endean, said the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bsleazy and disgraceful events\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 at the dinner would not come as a surprise to people working in the hospitality industry \u00e2\u20ac\u201c where sexual harassment is a daily reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe events at the Dorchester once again underline why it is imperative that the third party harassment provisions<\/a> which were axed by the Conservatives from the Equality Act must be immediately reinstated,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Endean said.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe third party provisions placed a legal duty on employers to protect employees from harassment by customers. Their axing has allowed employers to ignore this form of harassment and effectively gives customers a free pass to sexually harass hospitality workers.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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She added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite also believes that the Charity Commission needs to launch an urgent investigation into the Presidents Club. Unite has members at some of the charities which have received grants from the Presidents Club and who are horrified by the circumstances through which the money was raised.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tory politicians and Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s business elite have been linked to a sleazy charity dinner where female hostesses ordered to wear revealing outfits and black underwear were allegedly sexually harassed.   \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI was groped several times, and I know there were numerous other hostesses who said the same thing had happened to them,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 FT reporter Madison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[379,44],"wps_subtitle":"Reinstate harassment laws call","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26443,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14483\/revisions\/26443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}