Tony Danker, the former boss of the CBI, has acknowledged he had made some staff feel 'very uncomfortable'
By Simon Jack & Dearbail JordanThe former boss of business group giant the CBI says his "reputation has been totally destroyed" after being fired over complaints about his behaviour.
Mr Danker accepted that some staff may have found his approach at work uncomfortable and apologised for that - but he did not believe his immediate sacking was warranted."I have never used sexually suggestive language with people at the CBI," he said. "You know, there was an incident somebody raised a complaint about unwanted contact, which was verbal contact.
"It must have either violated someone's dignity, whether it was intended or not, or created an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them, whether it was intended or not." Mr Danker admits that he did look at the Instagram profiles and stories of "a very small number of CBI staff, men and women"."I get that people felt that it was wrong, that I was looking at their admittedly completely public Instagram stories", he added.
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