Yes, that is the incident to which I refer. I think a couple of people were treated appallingly over that matter and, for a number of other staff, was perhaps the nail in the coffin in their decision to leave JCB.
I’m pleased you’ve come out and told the truth about your husband and I’m genuinely sorry for your circumstances. Perhaps your post might make some prospective employees think twice about working for them.
Most large companies these days have an enlightened attitude to man management and recognise that their workforce is their best asset and without a good and loyal workforce, the business would be nothing.
But not Sir A; he believes that his company’s biggest liabilities walk onto the shopfloor each morning and comes from the “Cartwright kicking down the mill door” school of personnel relations.