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Two company executives who were sacked over a ‘laddy’ WhatsApp group that shared explicit images and crude jokes about female colleagues have sued their former employer for £300,000 – The Sun reports.
Former bosses Paul Wells and Roberto Solari say that they were unfairly dismissed after the messages were discovered when another employee handed in their old work phone.
Wells and Solari deny any misconduct and claim that the reason for their dismissal was to deprive them of the company shares that they estimate to be worth at least £150,000 each.
Despite this, bosses at Cathay Investments 2 Ltd - who the Evening Standard report was formerly PNC before it was bought out - stand by their decision for sacking them on the basis of “gross misconduct”.
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